Draft Snap

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Description

Snapping means "gluing" your next point onto an existing point or feature.

Snapping is available with most Draft and Arch Workbench tools, and can be enabled and disabled globally with the File:Snap Lock.svg Draft ToggleSnap command.

Each snap method can also be enabled or disabled individually by clicking the corresponding button on the snap toolbar, which can be made active with the menu View → Toolbars → Draft Snap.

Line snapping perpendicularly to another line

Available snap locations

Options

  • File:Snap Lock.png Lock: turns snapping on/off globally
  • Certain additional snap locations can be obtained by combining 2 snap locations, such as ortho + extension, that will give you a snap point at the intersection of their imaginary lines.
  • Other, more complex snap locations can also be obtained by using constraining (by pressing SHIFT or X or Y or Z while drawing).
  • Pressing L while drawing locks the current angle of the line segment being drawn.
  • The maximum distance at which a point is snapped a snap location is specified in the preferences, and can also be changed on-the-fly by pressing [ or ] keys.
  • Pressing Q while drawing inserts a hold point at the current location of the mouse cursor. You will then be able to snap orthogonally to those hold points, and at the intersections of their orthogonal axes. If midpoint snapping is enabled, you will also be able to snap at the mid distance between any two hold points. introduced in version 0.17