Adding Alignment Marks

Add the alignment marks to be output to the measurement recipe.

How to Execute

Run Directly on Screen

Switch to Add Alignment mode, then left-click on screen.

Screen Add Alignment Mode Snapped

Alignment marks are saved to Measurement Panel and displayed on screen.

Alignment Added

Right-click on the displayed alignment mark to open the context menu, containing the following items in addition to the default context menu items:

Menu Action
Show Show/hide the alignment mark on screen.
Display/Name Show/hide the name of the alignment mark on screen.
Display/Coordinates Show/hide the coordinates of the alignment mark on screen.
Color Change the display color of the alignment mark on screen.

Run from the Create Alignment Point Dialog

Right-click on the blank area of the datalist of Alignment Marks tab in Measurement Panel to open context menu, then select Create Alignment Mark to open Create Alignment Point dialog.

Create Alignment Point Dialog

Enter the coordinates and press OK to add the alignment mark.

Run with Measure Points File

Click the icon on Measurement Panel and select Load Measure Points File to open the Load Measure Points dialog.

File Dialog

Specify a Measure Points File and press OK to add alignment marks specified in the file.

Refer to Measure Points File page.

Output Alignment Marks to a File.

Alignment marks can be saved to a text file. Click the icon on Measurement Panel and select Save as Measure Points File to open Save Measure Points as dialog.

Save Measure Points as

Item Action
Save in CSV format Save the Measure Points File in CSV format.
Save Selected Rows Only Save only the selected measurement points in Measurement Panel.

Specifiy the output file name and press OK to save. The format of the output file is as follows:

# Measure Points File Created by libebv at DATE nebv VERSION
Out-Origin OUT-ORIGIN 0, 0
# Alignment mark
A1 MARK 84.5, 122.1
A2 MARK 124.24, 19375
# Measurement points
# End of File

Run from the Command Line

Specify --measure-file option with a Measure Points File to add alignment marks after startup. You can also specify the filename to save measurement points (including alignment marks) using --measure-file-out option.

By specifying as follows, measurement points and alignment marks will be created for figure_file, and the results will be output to measure_points.txt.

$ nebv --measure-file=/path/to/measure_point_file.txt --measure-file-out=/path/to/measure_points.txt /path/to/figure_file

Refer to Measure Points File page.

See --measure-file, --measure-file-out in Boot Options page.

You can change the way the alignment marks are displayed from the Preference. See preference Action/Recipe Creation/Add Alignmentpage for detail.

Last modified December 9, 2024