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Using magnetic lines - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Learning SOLIDWORKS Composer
Using magnetic lines
- [Instructor] Magnet lines are a convenient way to align and move some of my collaborative actors or in this case, some labels. Now, a magnet line itself is a collaborative actor, so again I'll want to navigate to the Author tab and over on my left-hand side I have a magnet tool, so I can click to start this magnet command and just click once to define my first magnet line point and click again wherever I'd like to define my second magnet line point. In this case maybe I want my magnet line to come down vertically, so I'll just click my second point here and now I see my first magnet line popping into my workspace. I can create additional magnet lines, as many as I'd like within the individual view or if I'm finished with my command again I'll just hit the escape key. So, now I can click and drag my line. As we can see here, all of my collaborative actors or in this case my labels will automatically jump onto that line and they'll align themselves nicely and now I can just move all…
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