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Offset alignments

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Offset alignments

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- [Instructor] In addition to a regular alignments that define a baseline, we can also have alignments that are associated to that baseline, that are offset. And so we're going to look at creating offset alignments in this exercise. I'm going to go ahead and open up our Align Offset exercise. We have the geometry, or the alignment that we've been working on throughout this chapter. And if I select that alignment, notice in the Launchpad panel, of the Contextual Ribbon, we can create offset alignments. So I go ahead and do that, it says alignment offset. These are going to be alignments that are created. So they're called offset alignments so of course they're still 3D objects that must be named. The length of the alignment offset. How many to offset to the left or to the right. The distance in the direction to offset. And then of course, what label to apply. Our alignment style, and then label set. Since these really represent the edge of the road, I don't want to apply any labels to…

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