Align objects with ALIGN command

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The align command in AUTOCAD allows you

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to align objects to other objects where typically

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you would have to use a combination of different commands such as move and rotate

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to be able to accomplish the same objective.

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The align command helps mitigate this process. In

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this example, I'll rotate

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the angled parts on this assembly

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to line up with the rest of the part by using

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the align command.

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I'll start off by

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panning over and then zooming in

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and I want to rotate this piece

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to match the rest of this assembly.

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So to access the align command, I'm going to come to the home tab,

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the modify pull

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down panel

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and the align button is on the far left side,

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I'm going to press a line

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and then I'm going to use a crossing window

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to select

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all the pieces of this part,

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right click for enter.

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And the first source point

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will be this end point

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destination

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will be this end point.

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Notice the command line prompt, ask for a second source point

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which will be here

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and then the second destination point

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which will be here.

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Notice how we can continue to look for different points

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in case we had some areas of very complicated geometry

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and we wanted to make sure that more than just two points

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were aligned with the destination.

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We could continue to add more points to this.

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But these two are enough for what I need.

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So I'm going to press enter at this point.

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Then the next command line option is very important because

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what it says is scale objects based on alignment points.

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I'm gonna say no. Then I'm gonna undo it and show you the difference when I say yes.

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So I'm gonna say no here

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and you can see

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that those end points don't exactly line up.

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So if we choose yes, for the scale factor, then

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you'll see that those end points will line up. So let me go ahead and undo

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and then I'm gonna do the align command one more time.

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But this time I'm gonna use the scaling object.

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So we'll go ahead and grab the same end points,

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same end points and I'll zoom in to see those. I don't want the third point.

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So I press enter and this time I'm gonna choose the yes option

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and just like that,

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you can see those end points lined up.

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Let me do a regen

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all and just had some phantom lines there. You can see

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that those end points line up.