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Align a bunch of Nodes either horizontally or vertically in the DAG

Updated: 29 April 2021

Author: frank

Compatible Nuke versions: 10.0 or later

Compatibility: Linux, Mac, Windows

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v1.3 - Nuke 13 compatible

v1.2 - using node centre now instead of upper left corner, which makes Dots work as well as nodes with non-default height due to labels

v1.1 - undo now works

Here is an example menu.py entries with hotkeys (note that this will overwrite alt+x as the shortcut cut for 'File/TCL File...'). It pus the entries into rather deep sub menus, but I always use the hotkeys anyway:

import nuke
import alignNodes

menuBar = nuke.menu('Nuke')
menuBar.addCommand('Edit/Node/Align/horizontally', 'alignNodes.alignNodes(nuke.selectedNodes(), direction=\'x\')' , 'alt+x')
menuBar.addCommand('Edit/Node/Align/vertically', 'alignNodes.alignNodes(nuke.selectedNodes(), direction=\'y\')' , 'alt+y')

before:
alignNodes_01

after:
alignNodes_02