Page 129 - Chief Architect Reference Manual

Preferences Dialog

at off angles as they are drawn or edited. • Center enables snapping to the center
See “Angle Snaps” on page 170.
of cabinets, fixtures, furniture, as well as
2 Control the appearance of Snap circles and arcs.
Indicators.
• Quadrant enables snapping to the
• Specify a snap Indicator Size in pixels. left, right, top, or bottom of an object.
This setting also controls the size of tem- Only used for arcs and circles.
porary CAD Points. See “Place Point” on
page 292.
• Click the color bar to select a snap Indi-
cator Color from the Select Color dia-
log. See “Color Chooser/Select Color
Dialog” on page 203.
• Click the color bar to select an Extension
Color from the Select Color dialog. Quadrant snaps
• Click the color bar to select an Angle • On Object enables snapping to any
Snap Grid Color from the Select Color point on the selected object, including
dialog.
CAD objects and cabinets.
• Check Display Angle Snap Grid to turn
on the display of the Angle Snap Grid.
See “Angle Snap Grid” on page 171.
3 Enable any combination of Object
Snaps. You can also turn these options
on an off with the toggle buttons on the On Object snaps
toolbar or using keyboard hotkeys. • Points/Markers allows you to snap
• Check Object Snaps to enable the object to any temporary points you may have
snap and extension snap options, below. placed, as well as callouts and markers.
• Endpoint enables snapping to the
ends of lines, arcs, splines and other Points/Markers snaps
objects.
• Intersection enables snapping to the
• Midpoint enables snapping to the intersection of two objects, such as the
midpoint of an object such as a line or arc. intersection of a line with another line.
For objects such as boxes, you can snap to Intersection snapping also snaps exten-
the midpoint of any side of the box. sion lines to objects, and allows you to
snap two extension lines to each other.

Endpoint and Midpoint snaps

129