- [Instructor] It's not until we create balloons
inside of drawings that we have magnetic lines available.
So you'll notice again, if we go up to the command manager
and go to the Annotation tab, we see here magnetic lines.
These are used to align balloons and give us the option
to move around multiples at the same time,
keeping everything nice and neat
inside of our drawing views.
So you can see here, if I click on one of these balloons,
I actually have a magnetic line here in the background.
And when I click on it, it usually turns orange.
That's usually how you see it when they're activated.
And over here on the left,
I can see how long it is and what angle it's at.
And if I want to, I can adjust that angle right here
and it just pivots about the center, which is pretty cool.
And I can also shorten it if I want to
and compress everything.
For the spacing, I have free drag.
And what that means is I can take these balloons
and freely drag them to any point on that magnetic line.
If I click on the magnetic line one more time
and change this to equal spacing,
now all of my balloons that are on that magnetic line
have an equal spacing to each other.
And as I grab this from the end point,
I'm just holding down my left mouse button now
on this arrow, I can drag this back and forth,
drag it out to various angles, just like we did before,
but you'll see that that spacing maintains
and stays the same, no matter what.
I'm going to move my mouse down after releasing,
left mouse button click on the line
and now move the whole thing over,
and I can actually swing it over
all the way to the other side too, if I want.
And one last nice feature about this,
I'm going to just move down a little bit,
is once you do move it around,
say you reposition everything.
You can then drag everything
and your leaders will stay attached
and it re-spaces itself out
because you have that equal spacing set on.
So again, magnetic lines are really handy.
If you want, you can take an item off of the magnetic line.
You just grab it and drag it off.
Let's say I want to show this item and this item over here.
While I have balloons activated,
I can go up here and say, okay, give me a magnetic line.
I'm going to draw this starting here and drag down,
and I can actually snap it over
and it'll pick up the balloons that are near it.
I can click again to end it down there
and I'm going to hit Escape, select the balloon again,
and now I'm going to move my magnetic line where I'd like it.
So very handy tool,
really helps keep those balloons organized
around your drawing views
so that they're not all over the place.
There isn't a magnetic arc yet for doing radial snaps,
only the line, but the line is very handy.
And if you break it up accordingly
where your balloons are positioned,
it makes really good drawing views
that are really clear and nice and neat.