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dejudicibus
Nov 14, 2020Copper Contributor
How to align points in a freeform shape?
I have drawn a freeform shape. There are few points that should be aligned to the left in vertical and vertically distributed. How I can do that? I can select multiple points in a shape, but the alig...
Nov 19, 2020
dejudicibus One suggestion: add a guide to the page and then drag the points to want to align and glue them to the guide. Once they are aligned you can delete the guide.
- dariodejudicibusNov 20, 2020Copper ContributorGood trick just for alignment. Thank you. Less good if you want also to distribute them. You should add several guide and calculate distances.
- Nov 21, 2020
True that you can distribute points by adding additional guides -- and I just learned something that I've never tried before: You can actually use the distribute function on guides! It makes sense that it would work because guides are basically just Visio shapes (with a few special properties), but it's good to know that they respond to the distribute function.
- dariodejudicibusNov 21, 2020Copper ContributorGood hint!