snapping in 2011- its driving me nuts

[monkey]

i really dont like the snapping in 2011, it feels very clunky for some reason and doesnt seem to act like it did in 2008. for a start it keeps snapping to the edge of text boxes, why on earth anybody would want to do that i dont know, but when i am trying to draw over a survey plan its is a nightmare as i keep snapping to the levels all over the plan. i have tried checking and unchecking options in snap preferences to no avail, i may be missing something here. i also cannot find the snap radius option that was in the preferences menu in 2008, which allowed you to set a pixel radius, anybody know where this has gone or what it has been changed to.

if anyone has any ideas of how i can make the snapping better, please pipe in and give me some clues.

thanks

[CipesDesign]

Monkey, there are a couple ways to adjust snapping in 2011. FWIW I didn't like the defaults either. Check the following things (someone remind me if I've left something out):

1) in VW Prefs>Interactice, you can change the size of the "Selection Box" and the "Snap Box".

2) Double Clicking on the "Snapping Palette" will bring up the "Smart Cursor Settings". In here you can set all the different parts of objects to snap (or not), but more importantly, check that your "Snap Grid" isn't set to something ridiculous. Often I turn of the Snap Grid altogether as it gives me lots of erroneous snap points that have nothing to do with the object(s) to which I am snapping.

Hope that helps!

[monkey]

cipes, the snap box size totally eluded me, i think that will solve most of my problems. I have used the smart cursor settings before, but i still cant get it quite how i want it. any idea why it still snaps to text?

[CipesDesign]

Text Objects are still objects. Perhaps it's a good wishlist item (ability to enable/disable snapping for specific/selected object types). In the meantime, how about placing all the text in its own class (or layer) which will give you some additional control??

[bcd]

Use the Select Similar tool to select all your text boxes, and as Peter suggests place them in a class that you can turn off.

[monkey]

good idea cipes/bcd, but i must say that it is very annoying that i have to do this. i dont think i ever had this problem in previous VW releases, but maybe it has only reared its head due to me not sorting out my snap preferences properly

[Kaare Baekgaard]

I too updated from VW2008 to 2011 and found that snapping causes serious lags in VW2011 - even with all the fancy stuff turned off. I have send a bug report to that effect. I hope, it is a bug. If so, at least there is a chance, that it will be fixed in SP2.

[CipesDesign]

Have you tried decreasing the "time to acquire" settings (see attached. in Snapping Pref's). Note: I believe the top number must be greater than the bottom, even if only slightly.

For me, the default (shipped) times were way too long and it felt like I was waiting forever for VW to acquire a snap. Now, with settings as shown I am much happier.

Hope that helps!

[MullinRJ]

Note: I believe the top number must be greater than the bottom, even if only slightly.

But Peter, your picture shows the opposite (0.4 < 0.5). So, is your picture correct or your description?

Raymond

[CipesDesign]

Hi Ray, The picture is correct (those are my real settings). Sorry for the inverted description! I will try to change it to the opposite, just to see what happens.... Later, after football...

Edited November 27, 2010 by CipesDesign

[Jim Smith]

Is it me or since VW2008 have the screen hints also seemed less available? Used to be one could find, say the mid point of an object & drag across the drawing to use that point; can't seem to do that anymore.

[mike m oz]

Jim, you need to have the Smart Points and Smart Edges snaps turned on. Then if you hover over a point until the small red rectangle appears you will get extension lines from that point. What you see will vary with which snaps are turned on and what their snap settings are.