Aligning layers 

Fix miss-aligned layers.

Note: Viewplot allows the movement of individual objects and or entire layer sets.

Layers with offset

• Investigate the offset between the 2 layers
• Select with a single mouse click Pad B, switch to the other layer by
• pressing the space-bar. Now you can “Add” select Pad A.
• To measure the distance between both pads simply select:
• RMB ->Measure distance between objects

A message window will report a center distance from 2.25mm (X)

• Deselect all objects by; RMB > Deselect all layers
• Select all object from layer “Top-x.gbx” with the RMB > Select All
• All selected object will be colored white.

 

 

• The selected objects can be moved, use the move button from the Tool-bar or press {m}
• Ones in the move mode, you can still zoom or pan around.
• The selected layer information is visible as a “ghost” image.

 

• Offset the layer by pressing the Space bar (after selecting all layer objects).
• The “move objects” window will pop-up, here you can enter the new coordinates directly.
• With a @ as first character, it will tread the coordinates as relative.
• So just type: @2.25,0 and OK.

Both layers are now aligned, Refresh the window by {F5}

by repeating the steps 1 and 2, the center distance should be 0.0mm.

Move objects Window

Screencast from aligning 2 layers