Turn Snap Mode Off Globaly (Snap not Osnap)

[rkent]

Turned it off back in '87 of the last century. Guess it might have some use for someone. Maybe circuit boards .1 or such on center grid for all components.

I think your experience in the industry is limited and you are very Machine Tool Drawing centric. There are more uses for snap than circuit boards.

[Larry711]

Back to the OP's question - I don't recongize the behavior you describe - can you attach a sample file (you can delete most work from the file as long as it still exhibits the behavior).

snap.dwg
Attached is a blank file with 2 layout tabs, each layout has one view port.
Model Space; Snap is turned off

Layout 1; Snap is turned off when you are in paper space
Snap is turned on when you go into the view port

Layout 2; Snap is turned on when you are in paper space.
Snap is turned off when you go into the view port.

I am beginning to think that there is no system variable or something that I can change to turn it off all together. I think my only options are going to be; change the snap setting to a really small number in the acaddoc.lsp (thanks rkent), or write a progam that will go into the drawing and set snapmode to 0 in every layout and viewport.