Draft Snap Center: Difference between revisions

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This method snaps to the center point of circles and arcs as well as to the center of faces.

Snapping the second point of a line to the center of a circle

Make sure Draft ToggleSnap and Snap Center are turned on.
Select a Draft tool to draw a shape, or another suitable Draft tool.
Move the cursor over a circle, an arc, or a face.
A small white square will indicate the object's center point. The target object is highlighted in yellow. For circles and arcs, the circumference is highlighted, for faces the surface.
Click to register your new point.

Draft

Drafting: Line, Polyline, Fillet, Arc, Arc by 3 points, Circle, Ellipse, Rectangle, Polygon, B-spline, Cubic Bézier curve, Bézier curve, Point, Facebinder, ShapeString, Hatch
Annotation: Text, Dimension, Label, Annotation styles, Annotation scale
Modification: Move, Rotate, Scale, Mirror, Offset, Trimex, Stretch, Clone, Array, Polar array, Circular array, Path array, Path link array, Point array, Point link array, Edit, Subelement highlight, Join, Split, Upgrade, Downgrade, Wire to B-spline, Draft to sketch, Set slope, Flip dimension, Shape 2D view

Draft Tray: Select plane, Set style, Toggle construction mode, AutoGroup
Snapping: Snap lock, Snap endpoint, Snap midpoint, Snap center, Snap angle, Snap intersection, Snap perpendicular, Snap extension, Snap parallel, Snap special, Snap near, Snap ortho, Snap grid, Snap working plane, Snap dimensions, Toggle grid

Miscellaneous: Apply current style, Layer, Manage layers, Add a new named group, Move to group, Select group, Add to construction group, Toggle normal/wireframe display, Create working plane proxy, Heal, Show snap toolbar
Additional: Constraining, Pattern, Preferences, Import Export Preferences, DXF/DWG, SVG, OCA, DAT
Context menu:
- Layer container: Merge layer duplicates, Add new layer
- Layer: Activate this layer, Select layer contents
- Text: Open hyperlinks
- Wire: Flatten
- Working plane proxy: Write camera position, Write objects state

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 == Usage == <!--T:3-->
 # Make sure {{Button|[[Image:Draft_Snap_Lock.svg|16px]] [[Draft_Snap_Lock|Draft ToggleSnap]]}} and {{Button|[[Image:Draft_Snap_Center.svg|16px]] [[Draft_Snap_Center|Snap Center]]}} are turned on.
-# Select a Draft tool to draw a shape, or another suitable tool.
+# Select a [[Draft_Module#Modifying_objects|Draft tool to draw a shape]], or another suitable Draft tool.
 # Move the cursor over a circle, an arc, or a face.
 # A small white square will indicate the object's center point.  The target object is highlighted in yellow. For circles and arcs, the circumference is highlighted, for faces the surface.