The Align shapes to terrain tool aligns shapes to arbitrary terrains (map layers with attribute elevation defined) or to the y=0 level. All currently selected shapes and all shapes of the selected layers are aligned. The shapes are aligned to a terrain, using an alignment function and an optional offset. You can access the Align shapes to terrain tool
the following ways:
- Click the Align shapes to terrain tool
on the toolbar.
- Click Shapes > Align shapes to terrain... in the main menu.
![Shapes not aligned to terrain. Shapes not aligned to terrain.](GUID-046D8B6D-4E9F-48B4-8029-2D1D4CC0F313-web.png)
![Shapes aligned to a terrain. Shapes aligned to a terrain.](GUID-A2151B6C-515F-4491-A0DC-6EDD2F831D48-web.png)
Tool settings
The following parameters control the alignment:
Align function | The alignment function to apply to the vertices of the shape polygons.
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Terrain | The terrain to align the shapes. All attribute layers with an elevation attribute plus the y=0 level are listed here. |
Offset | The offset to add after alignment to the y-coordinate of the shape points. |