Temporarily Suspend Snapping for Loads when moving/or creating?

[Wesley Burrows]

Is there a way like with regular snapping to temporary disable rigging related snapping?   I know there's a spotlight document preferences option,  but it's clunky to go back forth to quickly.   For example.   You've created a truss,  hung lights on it etc,  and say for some reason you need to shift the truss L/R of it's current location without moving all the fixtures, or maybe even rigging points,  cause say they are fixed hook points in the ceiling.   Is there a smart way to do this?    I generally want the loads to attach to the truss on creation,  but sometimes I don't.   Screen PIO's in particular I may want a a specific fixed height from the ground,    but they snap to the truss,  then you fix it,  and say you need to adjust the trim on that truss, but want the screens to stay put,  how do you deal with that?

 

I typically have been cutting whatever objects I want to stay put and pasting them back after the move,   but this isn't without flaws,   that works with L/R moves etc.   But projection would just re-snap to the truss. 

 

Am I missing something?

Edited March 24, 2023 by Wesley Burrows

[jcogdell]

Hi Wesley
there's no other control for this currently that I'm aware of but you could use the repeat last command feature of the right click context menus to open the Spotlight preferences, after opening them the first time,
or add them into the right click menu with the workspace editor, this would save a bit of time accessing the settings

[Sebastian Giese]

Same here and no good workaround. The only way is to CTRL-X, move truss and CTRL-V… the tool „dettach loads“ is not really an option, because you have to klick on every single object attached to the truss, twice.

[Wesley Burrows]

2 hours ago, jcogdell said:

Hi Wesley
there's no other control for this currently that I'm aware of but you could use the repeat last command feature of the right click context menus to open the Spotlight preferences, after opening them the first time,
or add them into the right click menu with the workspace editor, this would save a bit of time accessing the settings

 

Would it be possible to put in a feature or enhancement request to address this?   Or could a script toggle the preference check marks like you can with other preferences?

Edited March 24, 2023 by Wesley Burrows

[jcogdell]

There is a VE already for this, I'll add you both to it

[Mike Wright]

Is there a resolution to this?

 

I have a lighting design where I need to repeat the below multiple times but no matter how I try to achieve this, the lights all snap to the square of truss above when I paste/paste as a group/create symbol and repeat etc.

 

[Scott C. Parker]

3 hours ago, Mike Wright said:

the lights all snap to the square of truss above

Are you talking about the lights that look like they should stay snapped to the pipes below the truss? Can you share a copy of this for use to play with?

[Mike Wright]

I am indeed.  The pipes are not 'pipes' in the VW sense though, they are a symbol made up of solids so the lights are not currently snapped to anything.

 

The work around I have used it to CTRL+drag the rigging and LED with the LX layer turned off and then duplicate just the LX and ALT+drag them into position.

 

You cannot add the ALT modifier to CTRL+drag

 

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[jcogdell]

@Mike Wright
Move by points should work pretty well for this in 3D