Newbie Snapping Question

daveedwards
daveedwards
in Shape

How do you keep Shape from Snapping to an Object in the background?

Comments

  • Per Gogstad
    Per Gogstad

    Try to press the Tab key.

    Snapping: use F3 to toggle snapping. Press Tab: to select obscured geometry

  • Michael Mayer
    Michael Mayer

    I think in Bricscad, activating "Entitysnap to negative Z" lock Icon
    in Snapping Palette would do the trick.
    (I think in general it is quite usefule the default way)

    EDIT :
    I think it was more the OSOPTIONS settings in Bricscad.
    But looks like all these Command Line inputs for Snapping
    aren't available in Shape.

  • daveedwards
    daveedwards

    Awkward - it's all or nothing. If I want to draw a Shape on a Wall (to be Extruded) and use Snaps as well without selecting Objects in the Background, how would that be done? Shouldn't Locking the DUCS restrict Snapping only to those objects found in the current X/Y Plane?

  • Michael Mayer
    Michael Mayer
    edited February 2019

    You can exactly control that behavior of ignoring
    potential snap points of Objects occluded behind
    the DUCS Plane by Bricscad's (only) OSOPTIONS
    setting.

    Generally I think it is quite useful to be able to align
    Object Creation to an Element Feature in the Back of
    the DUCS.

    In Vectorworks that is disabled by default,
    but you also have the option by pressing the "B" key,
    that switches an area around your Cursor into Wireframe Mode
    to allow snapping of occluded elements.
    (You know, "B" like XRay ;) )

    Maybe disabling that feature in Shape also by default would
    be a good idea - I don't know ....

  • Michael Mayer
    Michael Mayer
    edited February 2019

    @Michael Mayer said:
    Maybe disabling that feature in Shape also by default would
    be a good idea - I don't know ....

    Why not.
    In Shape you should snap occluded things - when you use a
    View Mode Style that has a bit of Transparency in Shading,
    but it could avoid occluded snapping when a 100% opak
    View Mode is selected (?)

    Makes a lot of sense to me ....

  • Per Gogstad
    Per Gogstad

    With F3 you can switch snapping ON and OFF. With snapping ON, you can move to the geometries behind the one you point the courser at. It will then snap to the snapping points of that geometry. See screenshots.

  • daveedwards
    daveedwards
    edited February 2019

    I'm really wanted to avoid Snapping to objects in the background, but still use Snapping for what I'm currently drawing. Would adding a "On Face" Snapping Option work?

  • Tom Foster
    Tom Foster

    "switches an area around your Cursor into Wireframe Mode to allow snapping of occluded elements"
    "snap occluded things - when you use a View Mode Style that has a bit of Transparency in Shading, but it could avoid occluded snapping when a 100% opak View Mode is selected"

    Two brilliant ideas