Don’t know if anyone else has found this “feature” but I use it all the time. It honestly seems more like a bug, but it’s super handy for aligning objects with each other…
Say for example you have 2 objects A, B on the plate and you want to set the y coordinate of object B to the same as the y on object A. First select object A and open the MOVE tool. Then click (single click) on the y value in the move dialog (the number will hi-light). Now click on object B and viola object B will now have the same y coordinate. You may need to hit ESC for it to move, but usually it just immediately moves. Works for x too…
This just works for some reason. If it’s a bug I hope they don’t fix it.
I just tried it out in Orca 2.2 and Bambu Studio 1.10.0.89 and it does not behave in exactly the same way as described above. But maybe I’m missing something and someone needs to show an animated GIF to get my thick skull to understand this.
In my example when selecting the “y” value in the move dialog you just click it. Don’t double click. The value with auto hilight with just a single click. At that point just select the other object. If the object doesn’t move right away just hit ESC and then it will move.
I could see this being not the intended functionality. I’ve been a programmer since the 80’s and I could see how this could be an unintentional artifact of selecting another object while the dialog is engaged with the first object. The second object may be getting the value on accident, but either way it works great.
Easter eggs are always fun. Excel used to have some of the best.
The only thing we need now is the ability to align multiple objects along left, right, top and bottom edges. However, this is huge especially when trying to center a clone of one object inside of another. However, I just learned that this does not work when operating on objects inside of an assembly. That would be very useful indeed when creating modified of shapes. However, I supposed one can move align the object and then make it part of the assembly. If I get time later, I’ll experiment.
I discovered this same thing a few weeks ago. I was printing up 20 of the same part for a scale modeling project.
I don’t know why but I decided that all the parts must be in perfect columns and rows.
Does it effect print quality or time, I don’t know, but it sure looks nice on the build plate.
As I was meticulously altering the x,y coordinates I found this little trick and it made things go much quicker.
Thanks for sharing this with the community.
Yes, use exactly the same method but change the Z coord.
After years of working with CAD programs you soon learn how to mimic features that are not in the program,
Although there is also another way to align them.
Select “Arrange all objects” (4th icon from the left on top toolbar)
enter a spacing between them value then press OK.
This aligns them in X.
If you want them aligned in Y then select the “Align to Y axis” option before pressing OK.
If you have a plateful, you can also hit the middle icon on the right of the plate, this will organise them all - although you don’t get to choose a spacing then.
It can do. When you use the auto arrange it takes print speed and travel into account, when you align things, you usually look for how it looks instead.
Only if the objects selected are part of a merged model as z height isn’t possible unless two or more are merged into one.
