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Align (annotation) point features to line?

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10-27-2022 12:06 PM
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wayfaringrob
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I feel like this exists, and I'm missing it. I have several annotation labels that I'm looking to align to an edge. It's a straight edge, but when I use the move tool to align left/right/center, they show up at an angle since my map is rotated, and it seems to align north/south rather than left/right/center of your display.

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I thought the Align Features tool would be able to help, but it deselects all my points when I open it, saying the active edit tool is filtering the selection, or warning that the current selection includes features or rows that are invalid for this operation.

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You can draw new points along a line, of course, but is there really no way to align points after they are created? These are annotations from a web layer that is locked down/non-exportable, and therefore I can't move them before they turn into annotation, either.

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wayfaringrob
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Snap tool also fails.

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wayfaringrob
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The best workaround so far is using the edit vertices tool - select each annotation line, grab it by the right anchor point, and snap it to the corner. This is a ton of work to do each one individually so if there's a better way I'd love to hear about it.

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