FROM and QUICK snap
I cannot find any info in the help about the FROM snap, can someone explain how it works or what it does ?
Quick disables the running snap settings, next you can select a snap mode. This seems to me the same like using "_none". What's the purpose ?
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If you use the index you will not find FROM. But if you look in User guide > Drawing Accurately > Entity Snaps you will find an explanation.
QUICK doesn't seem to work as explained in the Help.0 -
I now how it works but I cannot use snap FROM: it isn't functionally: I am using the last release 11.2.12.. That is: I use it with acad2000LT without problem, and try it also on acad2006 full with fine result.
I am waiting still for an answer by the support staff.
Who could help me?
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I cannot get FROM to work either. I get the message "Unable to recognize command "FROM". Please try again."
It would be nice if FROM worked!
(v11.2.12, build 21834)
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This is from the user guide. I have not had any problems with its functionality.
The From entity snap option allows to define an offset from an entity snap point.
When executing a drawing or modifying command, do one of the following:
Click the From tool button on the Entity Snaps toolbar.
Type from in the command bar, then press Enter.
Press Shift, then right click and choose From in the context menu.
The command bar reads: Base point:
Identify the base point.
The command bar reads: Base point: offset or regular point:Type the offset, from the base point as relative coordinates: @x,y,(z).
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James, which version are you running?
I've tried executing the FROM command via all 3 methods (tool bar, command bar, shift right-click) and get exactly the same thing - "Unable to recognize command "FROM". Please try again."
Are there any other setting(s) that are a pre-requisite for FROM to work?
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@ Gary Adams: you have to start a command first.
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Thanks Roy.
It makes sense that the FROM command won't work without invoking a prior command.
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Dears,
I have used Autocad for 16 years, now I'd like to migrate out of Autodesk, and I am learning to use Bricscad, with a little effort I have been using it for 15 days at job.
There are some difficultes that are discourage me, one is the follow, (for example):I comand to do a line and start by a L-click at the first point ("A") //
a line tracking also with two boxes shown the similar notes at the bottom of the command line (clicking F6 the coordinates shown at the bottom change: absolute-relative-none and/or by TAB I can change the box to digitilize)//
now I need to get the second point ("B") not from the relative coordinates of "A" but from another point (entity, object "C"), so I keep SHIFT while R-click and the snaps menu box appears.//
now I L-click (without SHIFT also) to select FROM snap//
at the line come out the request: "Base point:" //
now I choose a new point with or without any snap (my "C" point), //
at the line come out the request: "Offset or regular point"....but the tracking line is still from the "B" point! Infact, is not possible to do any coordinate from "C"!!!
I used other programs as Autocad that change properly the point of tracking (AC2000 - AC2000LT - AC2006);
so, I am sorry but, should be the BC (release 11.2.12) to have some problem... forthemore AC2000LT has not the help by the dim tracking with the boxes but is easy to do FROM ever.
I reported it to the support -in Italian language- to get help but I have not get answer yet.
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@ Olivo: I agree, it would make more sense for the dynamic input to switch to the FROM point. But, as James has already mentioned, it is possible to use FROM with relative coordinates.
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Dear Roy,
no, with Bricscad is not possible to use FROM with RELATIVE coordinate because in Bricscad it is not working!
That is: the relative coordinates after the choice "snap FROM" should start from any new point and not the previous! (all the other programs that I used do it correcly)
And this new point (from) should be detect by any proper kind of snap without to know the ABSOLUTE coordinates! That is: the snap FROM to this it serves.
Bricscad instead of detects the selection [after the choise "snap FROM" ] as a new relative point to "offset or regular point" as reports in command line, keeps the previous!
This is a no-sense! Infact, using acad2000lt that is without dim-tracking-help, however it does it correctly: after the request "offset or regular point" and your input (by direction with mouse e lenght by console) it get the new point FROM the last but not FROM the previous!
Forthemore is not necessary to know the absolute coordinate point, otherwise I need to get the coordinate or made a construction by line, circles and so on, as I did (1997 autocad release 10).
I can't believe that a modern system as BC cannot work the snap correclty.
I hope, before "my company" will buy it, BC will be correct!0 -
Dear Roy, I have to correct myself that the coordinate RELATIVE could be put after FROM by (only) complete digiting of these on the line command (@x,y,z, or @<x(y,z))
However it is not a quickly method! Easer is -for example- that for cad2000lt that get FROM and accepts the input of the lenght by num and the dirction by the mouse (with on-off ortho).
I, but I think the others also, need a modern easer method.0
