Specifications

Aligning Components in the Layout Editor
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•Align – align all selected components to a single reference line.
•
Distribute – space all selected components uniformly with respect to each
other.
Both types of alignment can be applied in the vertical and horizontal
directions. Note that, in many cases, it is better to apply alignments
independently to the vertical or to the horizontal using two separate steps.
Align Options
There are both vertical and horizontal align options. Each option aligns
selected components to a reference line, which is determined by the bounding
box that encloses the selected objects. For example, the following picture of the
layout area shows the bounding box (indicated by the dashed line) formed by
three selected push buttons.
Bounding box for the
selected components