# Creating Alignments

Alignments are crucial to setting the coordinate origin and the X,Y, Z axes. This chapter discusses alignments commonly used with portable device. For information on other alignment methods, see the "Creating and Using Alignments" chapter of the PC-DMIS Core documentation.

- Quick Start Alignments

- 6 Point Alignment

- Nominal Point Best Fit Alignment

- Performing a Leapfrog Operation

- Using Bundle Alignments