snap goes all off the screen

[gijs]

Hello,

I have a lot of lines in my drawing, and it happens (all of the time) that when I draw a polyline it snaps to one of their endpoints all out of the screen. Of course I can switch the snap on and off, keeping my hand continuously on the F3, but this is very inconvenient.

Does somebody know a preference (and I mean not just the aperture) to snap only to points (endpoints/intersections), not to objects, or at least something that prevent it form going off screen.

Hope somebody knows a trick!

Thanks,

Gijs

[stevsmith]

>Tools

>Drafting Settings.

> Osnap Tab.

 

Allows you to set up where to snap to.

 

 

A good trick is to hold the ctrl button and right click this will give you a snap menu. Very handy and quick.

[iskalipsi]

Holding the shift key and right click will also give you the same result as what stevsmith said.I thought each key is unique

[gijs]

thank stevsmith,

I spent quite sometime in the drafting optiuons before, but in anycase it remains snapping to remote places (whatever I do with the marker, magnet, display and aperture). I use autocad lt 2009.

 

the trick with the right click + CNTR is indeed very practical.

Thanks.

Gijs

[Tiger]

one thing that you can consider, though I personally don't think it's practical is to have the Nearest-snap running. Then you will pretty much always snap to Nearest and always see where you are snapping to. You then have to move pretty much to the very endpoint before the Endpoint snap shows up.

 

LIke I said, I don't like to have it this way, but I know a bunch of people at my office that always have Nearest running.

[gijs]

I tried snap to nearest in the past, than rejected it because I got tired of the somewhat fuzzy snapping (to everything).

Now that i am trying it again it seems actually not too bad when I increase the aperture a bit to enlarge endpoint/intersection snapping.

In any case this solves the snapping off the screen, and replaces it for a smaller problem.

Thanks,

[Tiger]

I tried snap to nearest in the past, than rejected it because I got tired of the somewhat fuzzy snapping (to everything).

Now that i am trying it again it seems actually not too bad when I increase the aperture a bit to enlarge endpoint/intersection snapping.

In any case this solves the snapping off the screen, and replaces it for a smaller problem.

Thanks,

 

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[gijs]

This was my first time on the forum,

thanks for all the reply's!

Gijs

[Strix]

there must be a variable to set somewhere for this, as I'm pretty certain I've worked on different stations which behave differently - some snapping to elements off-screen, and some which won't recognise anything which isn't visible at the time of the command (which is really annoying when you're picking lots of stuff for a MOVE or COPY and it chooses to ignore half the things you've selected before zooming!)

 

I'm also not a fan on NEAREST - it just isn't accurate enough!

 

You do also know you can 'cycle through' the running OSnaps with the TAB key?