Orientation alignment

By using orientation alignment, in the CAM drawing you can:

• Manually orient the design in relation to the coordinate system of the samplemaking machine.
• Rotate the design.

To use orientation alignment

1. Do any of the following:

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

2. To define the 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 angle. At the moment of the click, the Rotation Angle field appears.

3. To define the offset angle between the two points, do any of the following:

• Use Select Quadrant . (Learn how to use the automatic computation of angles.)
• Drag the selected point to where you want it to be.
• In the contextual edit bar, enter a value for the absolute offset angle for the new position.

Notes

• When you drag the drawing close to a coordinate axis, it gets 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.