I've figured out how to align screw holes by first going to the Draft workbench. Then set snap lock and snap center to on. Then press M V (or click the blue Move icon) to start the move process. I thus aligned the two sets of holes, but the two sheets are embedded in each other halfway. The next step I see is to back off the two sheets until the two facing planes coincide. I did that by unsetting snap center and selecting snap near. Then viewing the two sheets on edge, I got the two facing planes coinciding. The two planes coincide, but one of the edges of the first square is made flush with the edge of the other -- the alignment of the screw holes is ruined. I figure that if I could somehow restrict movement to a single direction, I could get the two pieces aligned correctly, but I can't discover the magic combination of snaps.
What am I getting wrong here? Is there an easier way to go about this?
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OS: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) (MATE/lightdm-xsession)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.20.28884 (Git)
Build type: Unknown
Branch: master
Hash: cd53c06b9899b03fe88d2a2fe8258422e7ac9c09
Python 3.9.2, Qt 5.15.2, Coin 4.0.0, OCC 7.5.1
Locale: English/United States (en_US)
Installed mods:
* sheetmetal 0.2.49
* kicadStepUpMod 10.12.0
* fasteners 0.3.41