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Cursor Snap Variant - broken? Absolute/Relative toggle?

MMontgomery
Enthusiast
Along with the SHIFT+R relative method of dragging a point not working anymore, I notice the Snap Cursor Variant button on the Control Palette no longer works and the Absolute/Relative toggle next to 'r' and 'a' doesn't stay set to relative.

Is there a new method for doing this in 15? I used the Snap Cursor Variant quite often and would like to have it.

The absolute/relative toggle next to 'r' and 'a' doesn't work the same as it used to. The one next to 'x' and 'y' work as they always have, but the one next to 'r' and 'a' no longer defaults to the way I set it but instead defaults to Absolute settings, which I actually never use.

Can both of these get fixed back to the way they were before?
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I've noticed this too -- very frustrating to say the least.
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Laszlo Nagy
Community Admin
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MMontgomery wrote:
Along with the SHIFT+R relative method of dragging a point not working anymore, I notice the Snap Cursor Variant button on the Control Palette no longer works and the Absolute/Relative toggle next to 'r' and 'a' doesn't stay set to relative.
Yes, it seems like the button is greyed in the Control Box.
It works for me if I use its shortcut, the Q key, to cycle through the horizontal, vertical and parallel variants. Still, the greying looks like a bug.
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David Maudlin
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MMontgomery wrote:
I notice the Snap Cursor Variant button on the Control Palette no longer works
Same here, but becomes active after using the keyboard shortcut ("q") once.
MMontgomery wrote:
the Absolute/Relative toggle next to 'r' and 'a' doesn't stay set to relative.
Not a problem here.

David
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MMontgomery
Enthusiast
David wrote:

Not a problem here.

David
It's only when I first open the drawing. After I set it back to Relative, it stays as long as I keep the project open. It's just an annoyance the first time I perform a function without toggling first. Still, this should probably be fixed to act the way it did before.
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MMontgomery wrote:
It's only when I first open the drawing. After I set it back to Relative, it stays as long as I keep the project open. It's just an annoyance the first time I perform a function without toggling first. Still, this should probably be fixed to act the way it did before.
I've found this to be the case with the Selection Methods as well. Just an annoyance the first time, but it should still work as it used to.
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MMontgomery
Enthusiast
Laura wrote:
I've found this to be the case with the Selection Methods as well. Just an annoyance the first time, but it should still work as it used to.
I've noticed this too. I originally thought it had something to do with Teamwork - because I'm a 'Partial Elements' type of guy, and others in the project prefer 'Entire Elements' and it was only doing this while working in a TW project with those people. I thought perhaps the 'send and receive' was somehow sending that setting as well. But it hasn't been consistent, so I haven't been able to determine what is going on.
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vfrontiers
Advocate
Thanks for validating this... I thought I was loosing my mind!

I keep typing r 1' and the line would end up back in nowhere...

Suffice to say, I am experiencing the same..
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MMontgomery wrote:
I've noticed this too. I originally thought it had something to do with Teamwork - because I'm a 'Partial Elements' type of guy, and others in the project prefer 'Entire Elements' and it was only doing this while working in a TW project with those people. I thought perhaps the 'send and receive' was somehow sending that setting as well. But it hasn't been consistent, so I haven't been able to determine what is going on.
I too am a 'Partial Elements' person (I think we're in the minority). I also hate that Quick Selection is active by default. I too am working in TW and thought it may be related to that, but I've also found it inconsistent.
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