# Align one body to two different bodies?

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/align-one-body-to-two-different-bodies/10191>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [December 9, 2020, 5:43pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/align-one-body-to-two-different-bodies/10191 "2020-12-09T17:43:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![AndreasH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@AndreasH](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/AndreasH)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 5:43pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/align-one-body-to-two-different-bodies/10191/1 "2020-12-09T17:43:41Z")

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Hi! My first post 🙂

I would like to align a roof beam to the wall construction but are having a bit of a struggle to find out how I do it.  
As you see on my picture below there are two differents bodies that I would like the roof beam to align to. I can only align one of the edges of the roof beam to the counstruction but I’m sure there is a way that I have not found out yet.

Any one knows how to fix this? 🙂

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/e/e56d0afddf49b2c9a9d109900b98e3054ce8d892.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![Oregonerd](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/oregonerd/32/8012_2.png) [@Oregonerd](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Oregonerd)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 6:25pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/align-one-body-to-two-different-bodies/10191/2 "2020-12-09T18:25:05Z")

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Are you going to make a seat cut? Plumb cuts?  
The way I would have done it is make a drawing plane on the side of the wall facing us. Then you could draw the rafter in the correct place without needing to align it.

Drawing planes are handy and easy to make.

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**Author:** ![KPeter](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/kpeter/32/7644_2.png) [@KPeter](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/KPeter)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 9:57am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/align-one-body-to-two-different-bodies/10191/3 "2020-12-10T09:57:27Z")

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I think you should create a reference body to align to, which is almost the beam itself. There is no shortcut for this case… yet 🙂

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**Author:** ![AndreasH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@AndreasH](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/AndreasH)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 11:40am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/align-one-body-to-two-different-bodies/10191/4 "2020-12-10T11:40:07Z")

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Great! Thank you! Your idea solved my little problem 🙂

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**Author:** ![AndreasH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@AndreasH](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/AndreasH)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 11:41am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/align-one-body-to-two-different-bodies/10191/5 "2020-12-10T11:41:06Z")

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Thank you too KPeter 🙂 Creative thinking is the key, thanks for you tip! 🙂