I am trying to get the balloons equidistant from each other and on the same horizontal "line", however when I try to place some balloons, I can not select the correct placement. The balloon is effectively acting like trying to put two magnets with the same polarity together... I just can't get it in the right place.
Here is a short screencast so you can see what I mean.
~JWittACS
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highlight all the balloons you want aligned, then right click and select like in the image below:
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Thanks for the quick reply and visual aid. I didn't realize that I was going about my alignment completely wrong!
When you first place your balloons you can also hover next to the first (may need to cross over it) and it will project an alignment plane for the second, and so on to help alignment.
Yes, that is the method I was using to place them before, as is shown in the screencast. Thank you for responding, I appreciate all the help I can get.
*EDIT* I guess the screencast doesn't really indicate my method when first placing the balloon, but that is what I was doing.
it does, I just didn't see the attachment 🙂
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*EDIT* I guess the screencast doesn't really indicate my method when first placing the balloon, but that is what I was doing.
I think your screencast was great. Thank you for sharing it right off the bat. It makes answering questions on these forums quick and easy. There's nothing worse than someone posting an issue/question but not providing enough detail. So good work.
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You can also try pressing the Ctrl key when positioning the balloons. This will disable the 'snap' feature which I believe you are trying to describe with the magnet explanation.
Best regards, Daniël
Thank you ScottMoyse.
djreesing, Holding down the Ctrl key does not disable the "snap" feature for me when placing the balloons. Perhaps that functionality is an option? or maybe in a later release... I am currently using 2011.
@djreesing wrote:You can also try pressing the Ctrl key when positioning the balloons. This will disable the 'snap' feature which I believe you are trying to describe with the magnet explanation.
Best regards, Daniël
Indeed - the problem is that the tracking line for aligning with the other balloon is fighting with the angle snap positions when they get too close together.
Holy cow, it does work!!!
I'm on 2013 and this had bothered me for so long. I seem to recall them adding this for, like, dimensions or something but it didn't work for balloons when first implemented and I had gotten so used to working around it - and continuing to grumble. Not that the align function hasn't been awesome.
(Did they actually quietly finish a feature that had been poorly implemented at the beginning?)
Yes this is a new feature since release 2013, so it won't work when you're on 2011.
I believe it was documented in the official 2013 what's new whitepaper.
Daniël