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Snap points do not coincide with gridlines

Anonymous
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Why are the snap points slightly off center in relation to the grid crosshairs, and doesn't this generate dimensional inaccuracies?
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Laszlo Nagy
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Could you please post a screenshot of the problem so we can see exactly what is happening?
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rocorona
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I think he refers to the little dot being not exactly drawn on the grid lines. It has been this way from the beginning, as far as I can remember. I think it has to do with the black&white ages, when we didn't have color graphic cards on our computers, and a little black dot on top of a black line couldn't be seen.
One of the (really) many eccentricities from the ancestry of ArchiCAD
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Anonymous
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Thank you Roberto, that is exactly what I was referring to. I always have the (wrong) impression that the element I am placing will originate not at the gridline intersection but at the dot, and I find this disturbing, so at times I simply disable the snap point.

Your explanation about the dot not being visible if it was right on the gridline makes sense. However, a better solution by Graphisoft would have been to make it blink so it would be visible.

Would like to have your inputs as to the accuracy of elements placed using the off-center snap point.
I am ok with it like this. However, it would be good if they would publish a list of these ArchiCAD anomalies.

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