Openings
Lining up an opening on top of another opening
By Bill Wimberley
Nov 7, 2000

Did you ever drive yourself nuts trying to get a window to line up exactly on top of another window or door? And what do you do if you need to make a change to one of the openings and you keep selecting the wrong one? Here is a method for taking care of these problems.

First of all you place the openings side by side. Then run extension lines from each one, making one of the extension lines longer than the other. Draw a line to the side of the openings. Run dimension lines from the extension lines to the line you just drew. You should have something like this.



Now all you have to do is edit the dimensions and make them the same. You now have two perfectly aligned openings. If you leave your line and dimension lines in tact until your final clean-up you will be able to easily move the openings away from one another if you need to make any adjustments. One other thing, you can use Locate Opening Dimension to move your opening dimensions to make them cleaner.




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