VWUser2335 Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Just moved to VW 2009. I'm having problems with the object snap. I no longer able to snap "Perpendicular/Object" only "Vertical/Object". Is there a solution? Quote Link to comment
panta rhei Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 There are object snaps in VW 2009? I thought they were now obsolete... Quote Link to comment
VWUser2335 Posted February 17, 2009 Author Share Posted February 17, 2009 Maybe that's the problem (my problem). How would you draw a line that is not orthogonal ending on another line at a right angle? How do you snap to an object without snapping to a mid- or endpoint? Quote Link to comment
panta rhei Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Yes, that's how it was once upon a time: one was indeed able to do pretty complex geometric constructions quite easily, but VW has progressed. NNA has licenced new technologies including the cutting-edge Fuzzy Geometry Library from Dementia Inc. Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Double click on any of the boxes in the Constraints palette. This will bring up the SmartCursor Settings dialog box, all the snap setting are here. Quote Link to comment
Chad McNeely Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Double click on any of the boxes in the Constraints palette. This will bring up the SmartCursor Settings dialog box, all the snap setting are here. Specifically, if I understand the original problem correctly, after double-clicking one of the constraints buttons, select the "object" menu, and then check "nearest point on edge". Inexplicably, VW09 ships with this unchecked. Quote Link to comment
VWUser2335 Posted February 17, 2009 Author Share Posted February 17, 2009 Great! Thanks for the help. Quote Link to comment
panta rhei Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Still does not work here... No perpedincular constraint, flaky bisectors. VWD 2009/2, Mac OS X 10.5.6 Quote Link to comment
Chad McNeely Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Still does not work here... No perpedincular constraint... You sure? I don't like lots of the new wiz-bang snapping stuff, and was initially miffed that I had to dig for the non-intuitively renamed "nearest point on edge" setting to get the "along line" snap to work, but constraining perpendicular to 2d geometry works fine. Indeed my complaint might be that VW seems to strangely prioritize perpendicular above orthoganal sometimes (with the shift-key angle constraint), so that lines that could be quickly drawn in versions past must be more deliberately drawn today. Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 You need to have both the Snap to Object and Angle constraints turned on to get the Perpendicular notification. Quote Link to comment
panta rhei Posted February 18, 2009 Share Posted February 18, 2009 Of course, but that does not make any difference. It works when it wants to work, which is not often. Some correlation with file size & complexity, I think, and a couple of restarts of VW sometimes cures the situation for a while. Quote Link to comment
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