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Align Figure groups together

MatthewLove

I'm trying to organise my layout into various groups based on their function.

I can align the instances in each group but can't align different groups together, is this possible using the align tool?

Seeing as each group has a bBox property, I assume it can be done.

  • Andrew Beckett

    There's no support for figGroups in schematic, as far as I know. How are you creating them? If I create a fig group in the schematic using SKILL, it's displayed with a box around it, and isn't selectable - so it's not surprising the align functionality doesn't work with it...

    Maybe I'm missing something?

    Now, having figGroup support in VSE seems a reasonable idea, but it probably needs some work to make everything hang together - you might want to contact customer support to request this be supported.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • MatthewLove
    Sorry Andrew, meant to say that it's in my layout.
  • Andrew Beckett

    Matthew,

    I assume in that case you are talking about quick align? That allows you to align the edge of an object within each of the two figGroups and then the whole figGroups are aligned based on that. It doesn't give you the choice of aligning the figGroup bbox itself because that's not really a physical object.

    If you use Edit->Advanced->Align, you can pick object and set the object to "group" - in which case you can then align the top/left/bottom/right of the figGroup to something else (e.g. another group).

    So in essence I think you can do what you want via one of these two means?

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • MatthewLove
    Hi Andrew,
    I was using the Advanced->Align mode. Changing the object in "Align Using" to group fixed it.

    Thanks a bunch.

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