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ADDING DISPLAY PRIMITIVES
CRIMSON USER MANUAL - MODULAR CONTROLLER
ADDING DISPLAY PRIMITIVES
To add a display primitive to a page, click on the required icon in the drawing toolbox, or
select the required option from the Insert menu. The mouse cursor will change to an arrow
with a crosshair at its base, and you will then be able to drag-out the required position of the
primitive within the display window…
SMART ALIGNMENT
If you have the Smart Align features of the View menu enabled, Crimson will provide you
with guidelines to help align a new primitive with existing primitives, or with the center of
the display. In the example shown above, the horizontal dotted line indicates that the center of
the tank primitive is vertically aligned with the center of the display. With a little practice,
this feature can make it very easy to align primitives as they are created, without the need to
go back and “tweak” your display pages to get the various figures into alignment.
In the example shown below, a newly-created ellipse is being aligned with two rectangles…
Guidelines are present at both the edges of the figures, and at the center, showing that both
the edges and the centers are aligned. The red rectangle is highlighting the newly-created
primitive, while the blue rectangles are highlighting the primitives to which the guidelines
have been drawn. Smart Align is also enabled when primitives are moved or re-sized.
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