How to align two objects

[s.urbanski]

@jeremy5

Could you copy a section of the point cloud containing some of the wall and the aircon units and post it here?

Yes, with pleasure.

Part_of_the_point_cloud.e57 (19.2 MB)

@Rhino_Bulgaria

In fact, aligning reinforcement steel members (a.k.a. triangulation) along the length of a bridge involves multiple same objects placed at certain distance to each other. This means that once you align one of these, you can easily use Grid snap to mirror it along the Z-axis, then use Grid snap to make multiple copies of the original pair wherever you want.

I tried that with @pasal and thanks to his help (and patience) I found out about the problem I mentioned before: setting the CPlane in one view does not affect the rest of the views so my beams were mispleaced.

@Rhino_Bulgaria

I would orient the point cloud to be parallel to the world axes

That is impossible. The model must be in the same coordinate system as the cloud. Besides, If I align one wall with the world axis, the other wall will be shifted.