topic Re: Snap Understanding in Modeling

Snap Understanding

Zdenko — Thu, 02 May 2024 04:36:36 GMT

struggling with understanding "snap" and waiting on the mouse hovering to get the system to show a blue circle where necessary. are there commands that can be input for snaps, such as midpoint, endpoint, or perp.? I know this usage is from another CAD package. i seem to be very inefficient when it comes to placing elements, such as windows or doors using snaps and the tracker. I find myself placing elements at an easy location, such as corner, and then dragging it with the tracker to obtain the result. when I try to do a drag/copy my options under move are all grayed out and don't understand why.

Operating system used: Mac Apple Silicon Sonoma 14.4.1

also, how the heck does "choose a board" work with picking "labels" work?

Re: Snap Understanding

Barry Kelly — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 02:32:14 GMT

This might help with the snap guides ...

https://help.graphisoft.com/AC/27/INT/index.htm?rhcsh=1&rhnewwnd=0&rhmapid=#t=_AC27_Help%2F030_Interaction%2F030_Interaction-46.htm&rhsearch=snap%20guides&rhhlterm=snap%20guides&rhsyns=%20

In the Work Environment, you can set the time delay for them to automatically appear.

Or you can use the keyboard shortcut (Q is default) to make them appear straight away.

@Zdenko wrote:

also, how the heck does "choose a board" work with picking "labels" work?

Not quite sure what you mean by "choose a board".

You need to 'choose a label' when posting - sometimes it can be difficult to find the one that suits best (you can use more than one.

If nothing really suits, choose 'other'.

Barry.

Re: Snap Understanding

Zdenko — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 14:04:43 GMT

spent time yesterday learning the sequencing of making an element active with and without nodes and how the modifiers work in conjunction. i believe it has been resolved and more comfortable with the process.

i had difficulty in posting this topic and it wouldn't let me leave a "label"? that was my frustration, so i copied what i wrote and re-started the process. so you can disregard my ineptitude and impatience 🙂