Aligning manually (Position alignment)

By using manual (position) alignment, in the CAM drawing you can position:

• The design manually relative to the coordinate system of the samplemaking machine.
• The coordinate system.

To use manual (position) alignment

1. To turn on manual alignment, do any of the following:

• On the CAM toolbar, click Position Alignment .
• On the Tools menu, point to CAM, and then click Position Alignment.

2. To define an anchor point for the offset, click a point of the design.

A contextual edit bar appears above the graphical area, containing options for the definition of the absolute offset coordinates, X and Y. At the moment of the first click, the X and Y fields will show the absolute coordinates of the point you clicked.

3. Do any of the following:

• In the contextual edit bar, enter the absolute offset coordinates for the new position.
• Drag the selected point to where you want it to be. You will thus define the offset distance between the two points.

4. (Optional) Click any of the coordinate axes, and then repeat Steps 2 and 3.

Notes

• In the drawing, the X and Y offset coordinates are absolute.
• When you drag the drawing close to a coordinate axis, it is snapped to the axis. When you drag a start or an end point close to a coordinate axis or to an object from the drawing, the point is snapped there, too.
• You can drag manually the start and end points — they are displayed as green and blue dots, respectively. By default, they are positioned at the origin of the coordinate system.