Can you lock an objects alignment?
My discussion title/question is kind of vague to what I am asking.
At my place of work we use a lot of templates. I am part of a team responsible for creating and updating these templates. Most of them show distances between to points that have a line w a measurement label. My question is as follows.
If you have a line and center align a text box/object to it, then later need to extend that line but still want the text box/object to be center aligned to it is there a way to lock that alignment so it will move as the line extends?
I know if you extend the line both ways symmetrically you don't have to worry about it, but that is not always the case I am set with. Most of the time with a new template I just need to make a current template taller so I just direct select the top portion and move every thing up as needed. Unfortunately, after that I then have to reselect the measurement lines and realign my text box measurement label. I didn't know if there is a way to keep that track the centering when I extend the line up? I am trying to avoid stretching also because that has its own fine tune adjustments after the fact.
I use Illustrator every day and have not come across a setting like this, but every update has its own secrets that I have to find and explore and didn't know if such feature existed.
What I am asking is if there is something kind of like Title Alignment, but to a particular object, so that when you edit the object if something is aligned to the object it would track and update the alignment. Maybe there is a plugin out there?
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