Arrange Icons (Frame)

The subcommands of the command Arrange Icons allow you to align, to distribute or to reverse the order of the selected icons within the Frame window. First, select the objects whose icons you would like to arrange by dragging a marquee around them or by holding down Shift and clicking the objects with the left mouse button one by one. Then click the object to which you want to align the other selected objects with the right mouse button and select the respective subcommand.

The submenu provides these commands:

Align Horizontally

Reverse Order Horizontally

Align Vertically

Reverse Order Vertically

Distribute Horizontally

Bring to Front

Distribute Vertically

Send to Back

Align Horizontally

To align the icons of the selected objects horizontally in the Frame window, select this command. Plant Simulation aligns the objects to the y-coordinate of the object, which you clicked, and for which you selected the command.

Align Vertically

To align the icons of the selected objects vertically in the Frame window, select this command. Plant Simulation aligns the objects to the x-coordinate of the object, which you clicked, and for which you selected the command.

Distribute Horizontally

To distribute the icons of the selected objects with equal distances to each other horizontally in the Frame window, select this command.

Distribute Vertically

To distribute the icons of the selected objects with equal distances to each other vertically in the Frame window, select this command.

Reverse Order Horizontally

To reverse the order of the icons of selected objects horizontally in the Frame window, select this command.

Original order

Reverse order horizontally

Reverse Order Vertically

To reverse the order of the icons of the selected objects vertically in the Frame window, select this command.

Original order

Reverse order vertically

Bring to Front

To place the selected objects in front of other overlapping objects in the Frame window, select this command.

Note:

This also changes the number of the object in the Frame, compare the method node, as the object number and the drawing layer are directly related to each other.

Send to Back

To place the selected objects behind other overlapping objects in the Frame window, select this command.

Note:

This also changes the number of the object in the Frame, compare the method node, as the object number and the drawing layer are directly related to each other.