Aligning in different viewports

Jamie Fraser

Hi,

Can someone tell me what the best way is of aligning components in different viewports, but without affecting the component arrangement in modelspace.

What I want to do is something like panning but with entity snapping active so I can, say, align two components on the same centre line.

Can it be done?

Thanks

Jamie

Anthony Apostolaros

I do that by moving the viewport. You can snap on objects in model space while moving a viewport.

Jamie Fraser

Thanks Anthony, I can see that would work. Are there any other ways that anyone knows of where the viewport itself does not move, just the portion of modelspace that it is showing?

Louis_Verdonck

The PAN command moves the content of the viewport. Unfortunately esnap is not available with pan. If polar tracking is active, you can control the direction and distance of the movement though.