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Overview of MoveAlignMe

MoveAlignMe (MAM) is an extension helping you to move and align objects interactively.

It includes the two tools :

• Move-Pivot-Straighten, which performs a translation, folllowed by a free pivoting followed by a planar rotation
• Move and Glue, which automatically rotates object(s) when moved over a target face or edge, aligning their blue axis with the face normal or edge direction. It also perform gluing and cut-opening for components, and since SU2021.1 for groups and images. When the target face is embedded within a group or component, you can activate Deep Gluing with Toggle SHIFT. This will move the object within the parent of the target face and apply gluing and cut-opening.

MoveAlignMe: Move - Pivot - Straighten

MoveAlignMe: Move and Glue

MoveAlignMe: Move and Glue with Deep Gluing

Discussion forum

Links to Sketchucation Forum: Main Post Latest Release

Installation of MoveAlignMe

IMPORTANT: Make sure that you have first installed LibFredo6.

MoveAlignMe is released as a regular RBZ extension file on the Sketchucation Site.

To download the RBZ file, use the red button on the right side of this page:

• Download If your are already logged in.
• Log in to get it! otherwise, in order to log in or to register to Sketchucation as a new user (this is FREE). Then you will be able to download the RBZ file.

Then, you can install the RBZ file from within Sketchup, via the Sketchup Extension Manager

If you are not familiar with the installation of Sketchup extensions and Sketchucation, it is advised to watch the video LibFredo6 installation.

IMPORTANT: Whatever way you choose, you MUST quit and restart Sketchup to get MoveAlignMe (and LibFredo6) properly loaded.

After the installation, you should have the following footprint in the Sketchup Plugins directory:

Full documentation is provided in the Instructor window accessible from within the extension. For convenience, there is also a standalone Help panel which can be invoked from the contextual menu.

You can also consult the extracted PDF attached in the main post of the MoveAlignMe forum page

Links to Sketchucation Forum: Main Post   Latest Release

Release History

MoveAlignMe v1.4a – 02 Apr 24: Future compatibility

MoveAlignMe v1.3a – 24 Feb 24: Bug fixing for a problem where components moved were left with an embedding group

MoveAlignMe v1.2a – 14 Nov 21: Bug fixing for MPS mode when selecting multiple elements

MoveAlignMe v1.1c – 31 Oct 21: Deep Gluing

MoveAlignMe v1.1a – 23 Oct 21: Initial public release