Snaps > Button Bar

Opens the Snap Mode button bar, the buttons on which can be:

• Clicked to set the snap override.

• Shift-clicked to set the Snap Mode.

  Snap Mode button bar

There is one button for each type of snap and a button to toggle AccuSnap on and off. The Snap mode button bar is dockable.

In addition, the buttons for contextually inappropriate snap modes are disabled (dimmed).

• The Near Snap Point, Key Point Snap, Mid Point Snap, Center Snap Circle, Origin Snap, Bisector Snap, Tangent Snap, Intersection Snap, and Multi-snap 1 appear on the button bar by default.

• The Tangent Snap is only enable for the Place SmartLine, Place Line, Place Multi-line, Place Circle, Place Arc, and Place Shape tools.

• The Perpendicular Snap is only enable for the Place SmartLine, Place Line, Place Multi-line, and Place Shape tools.

• The snaps used with dynamic alignments (Tangent Point Snap, Perpendicular Snap Point, Parallel Snap, Thru Point Snap, and Point On Snap) are enabled for the Place Line, Place Circle, Place Arc, Place Multi-line, Place Shape, and Place Ellipse tools; the actual buttons enabled often change as you enter data points, lock values in the Tool Settings window, etc. By default, these snaps do not appear on the Snap Mode button bar. Right-click the button bar and select any of these snaps if you want them to appear on the button bar.

• By default, Multi-snap 2 and Multi-snap 3 do not appear on the Snap Mode button bar. Right-click the button bar and select any of these snaps if you want them to appear on the button bar.

  Multi-snap 1 defaults to Intersection, Keypoint, Nearest. Multi-snap 2 defaults to Intersection, Keypoint, Center. Multiand 3 defaults to Midpoint, Intersection, Center.

Key-in: DIALOG SNAPBUTTONS