When trying to pick a snap point in a crowded area of the drawing, I would find it extremely useful to have a function that cycles through the various possible snap points. I was thinking something like how you can use the "C" key to select a plane, but it would highlight each curve and snap point in turn, until you reach the one you need. As it is, I sometimes snap to the (nearby) wrong line, without realising until I measure the part and find the error.


Thanks.
Martin.

Mark.
It's the kind of functionality I need a lot of the time when the drawing gets crowded, and I'm not sure why others don't seem to need it too. Perhaps most users of ViaCAD construct largely from primitives, so don't need to snap to endpoints, midpoints, and tangents etc, as often as i do. Much of my drawing is for use with a CNC milling machine and so is mainly 2 dimensional, consisting of lines and arcs that must intersect accurately, else the CAM program can't do its job properly. Selecting a workplane with the "C" key is so useful that it would be hard to do without the function now. I think having another key defined, to allow zipping through all available snap points within a small distance of the cursor, is at least as useful.

Martin.

Yes I wholeheartedly agree with all of you. Snap management is all over the place- literally! Move my mouse to this window, turn that snap on/off move back, make a mark, return to window etc etc...Phew!

I've said this before, take a look at how the auto-snap function works on QCad- it's really good imho.

Hi Martin

I agree its hard to always snap to the point you want in a crowded drawing with lots of geometry using any system that has auto snaps. When I first used AutoCrud many years and they first offered the option to have snaps that stayed active vs always picking which snap you wanted, i saw/made many mistakes because of auto snapping and the wrong point getting picked. I always in a crowded area forced the snap I wanted by using autocruds letter combo activate tool --> type 'int", "end", "cen", etc so I knew which snap point would be used. Yes the idea of being able to cycle through all snaps located in the snap radius would be nice, but probably hard to implement? I always make the snap radius small when working in a crowded area to force myself to zoom in to get the point I want.



Regards

Jason

I just posted a similar request in the general section. Yes, a dynamic key that temporarily disables certain snaps while held down, and then when let go the snaps are enables again. Useful in crowded drawing/model areas.

Norbert