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# Align

These guides show you how to get more out of the GUI while you align a probe. They assume you have
already made an alignment, for example by following {ref}`tutorial-first-alignment`. How the
reference lines are turned into an alignment is explained in
{ref}`explanation-how-alignment-works`.

The guides cover three kinds of task:

Keeping and reusing your work
: Continue from an alignment uploaded earlier, or save one that isn't ready to upload and recover
  it later.

Controlling the fit
: Stop the regions beyond your outermost reference lines from being scaled.

Getting a clearer view of the data
: Show only well-isolated units, change the colour and axis ranges of the plots, look at a single
  cluster in detail, or check the trajectory in 3D.

```{toctree}
:maxdepth: 1

resume_alignment
recover_alignment
limit_scaling
filter_units
adjust_plot_ranges
inspect_cluster
view_in_3d
```