Snapping objects

By snapping two objects you set relations between them by choosing the types of relations you want between them. Snapping links the object or part which you are drawing or inserting to another object or part. By snapping you can set relations for objects you are currently drawing, or, in the case of a layout or a print part, inserting.

There are two types of snapping:

• Point-focused snapping. With point-focused snapping you can set relations between the control point you are about to place (belonging to the object or part you are drawing or, respectively, inserting) and a point, an object or a part in the graphical pane. You can use point-focused snapping when you draw points, ellipses, elliptical arcs, rectangles, regular polygons, Bézier curves and text, as well as the Place Part and Place Part by Rectangle modes for manual definition of Layout and Print parts.

The types of relations that you can detect and set with point-focused snapping are:

• On object

• On object point

• Horizontal points

• Vertical points

• Object-focused snapping. With object-focused snapping you can set relations between a whole object or part, and control points or other objects. Usually, the object-focused snapping modes are accessible just before the dragging of the last control point of the current object or, respectively, the placement of a print or layout part.

The types of relations that you can detect and set with object-focused snapping are:

• Tangent-to

• Pass through a point

• Concentric-to

• Parallel-to

• Perpendicular-to

• Horizontal line(Ox)

• Vertical line (Oy)

Notes

• When you work with a snapping mode, only the relations that the mode allows are detected.
• To cancel a snapping mode, press ESC, right-click in the graphical area, and then click Cancel Mode, or click the respective toolbar button activating the current object/part mode.
• The snapping mode buttons are visible only one at a time on the contextual edit bar. To switch from one mode to another, click and hold down the currently visible button and drag the pointer to the button you want to use.
• The values that you enter in contextual edit bars take precedence over snapping mode relations. When there is a conflict between the relationship set with snapping and an object or a part attribute value entered afterwards in the contextual edit bar, the value in the contextual edit bar will always override the set relation.
• When an object-drawing or part-placing mode disallows certain relations, the respective snapping modes will be unavailable. For example, you cannot make a circle parallel to anything.
• Some object modes require the placement of the first one or two control points for snapping to be applicable on them. For example, when you are drawing a Two Objects Tangent Circle, you should define the first two tangent objects and only after that you can use tangent-to snapping to define a third tangent object.
• When you draw fillets, chamfers and quick offsets, you cannot apply snapping: the necessary relations for the resulting objects are set automatically.