Transformation & alignment in CC vs CS6 for a strategy game counter sprue

Thanks for everyone's responses. I still have the same problem even with preview bounds checked & there is no "align to pixel grid" option under the transform tab. A couple more screenshots here: in the second one you can see the bounding box around the whole Xformation, although it still aligns only on the first pre-transformed square when "align to artboard" and "preview bounds" are checked, though I'm not 100% sure if "align to pixel grid" is checked, as I do not have that option in the Xform tab. I'm using newest version of cloud, just installed it a few weeks ago as I mentioned earlier ....  I did have some tech problems in the install weeks ago: there were some fragments left of CS6 after I had tried to uninstall it that were causing CC installation failures for me; the adobe tech support guy had to take remote control of my system for a couple hours before I could get the cloud up & running on my system. Perhaps there are still some minor, lingering issues left that are conflicting with some illustrator features on my system because of it?

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Hello:

I did click "use preview bounds" and the bounding box encompassed the entire transformation instead of just the original square, however it still would only centered on the original square. If this could work, that would do what I want/need (it's probably supposed to work).

Here's that screenshot. The 4-deep transformation process created a sprue of 280 half-inch counters for a strategy game I'm working on (2 columns of 140 counters each). The artboard is set to 8.25 x 10.75 (with bleeds of .125 on each side for a total canvas size of 8.5" x 11"). Although bleeds won't be used on counter sprues (a die-cutter will though, each of the small .5 squares will be die cut ... standard strategy board game counter sprue used in that industry). I clicked horizontal and vertical align and checked center on artboard (as opposed to center on selection). Note that the center & align function only centered the original (pre-transformed) square in the upper left (covered by the bounding box). The bounding box doesn't include the entire transformed object (only the pre-transformed original square). In adobe Cs6, the alignment tool centered properly (the entire transformation), but in adobe CC (the cloud, 2017), it seems to only want to center the pre-transformed original object bounded by the bounding box (as you can see, only that object is centered properly). A workaround is to create a rectangle that "perfectly" covers the entire transformation, group them, then center the grouped object (after which, I can un-group and delete the workaround rectangle .. but that seems unecessary to me & requires a lot of work to ensure the rectangle perfectly covers the transformation .. it doesn't snap to the transformation for some reason, only the original square).

Did you setup the file for Print?

If not, then pixel alignment might be turned on.

In CS6 that is "Align to pixel grid"

In CC it's Create pixel perfect art.

When working with shapes, that might act a little differently. CC has live shapes, which CS6 has not.

Also: Are there strokes applied? THose do also act up with Pixel perfect alignment. And then: when you measure your positions, do you include strokes?

hi .. can you send us  screenshots of your artwork , to get better knowledge to answer