{"id":5625,"date":"2019-09-28T13:05:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T18:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=5625"},"modified":"2019-09-30T13:15:34","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T18:15:34","slug":"yed-item-alignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=5625","title":{"rendered":"yEd: Item Alignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using yEd as a free not-quite-Visio, and happened across a feature that I love &#8212; as you move items around, little marks pop up when things are lined up and with multiple alignments? When they&#8217;re equidistant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?attachment_id=5626\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5626\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5626\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/yEditNiceAlignmentFeature.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/yEditNiceAlignmentFeature.png 477w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/yEditNiceAlignmentFeature-267x300.png 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 477px) 100vw, 477px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And once you have something lined up and equidistant, you can hold the shift key and drag the item to move it along one axis. In this case, I wanted the middle circle to be, well, <em>in the middle. <\/em>But I didn&#8217;t want it on the same horizontal line, so I was able to drag it <em>up<\/em> without losing the vertical spacing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?attachment_id=5627\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5627\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5627\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/yEditNiceAlignmentFeature2-HoldShiftAndDragUp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/yEditNiceAlignmentFeature2-HoldShiftAndDragUp.png 434w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/yEditNiceAlignmentFeature2-HoldShiftAndDragUp-253x300.png 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 434px) 100vw, 434px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using yEd as a free not-quite-Visio, and happened across a feature that I love &#8212; as you move items around, little marks pop up when things are lined up and with multiple alignments? When they&#8217;re equidistant. And once you have something lined up and equidistant, you can hold the shift key and drag &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[825,826],"class_list":["post-5625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-visio","tag-yed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5628,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions\/5628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}