Snap To Grid?

[Bruce Kieffer]

It seems that snap to grid only works in top/plan view. Is there a setting to make in work in other views?

[zoomer]

That's a real problem for me.

Especially as Curtain Walls aren't very optimized to edit their Grid in Top Plan View.

And I would like to snap to a Grid in any orthogonal View too.

[Art V]

Yes, it would be nice to have snap to grid work in orthogonal views as well, basically in any 3D view where you can choose whether the Z-axis grid should be snappable or not (in case you only want to snap to X/Y for positioning on a horizontal area or any surface in the X/Y plane in a tilted view for that matter).
Or have snap to each axis to be on/off per axis.

[zoomer]

Would be cool to have a separate grid setting for each of X, Y and Z axes

[halfcoupler]

Don't know if this is a good workaround, but it should be quick and easy to create a grid of loci via the dublicate array tool and have this on a separate layer. The grid can then have any desired shape in this way and it will snap in 3D.

Edited October 16, 2017 by halfcouple

[zoomer]

You are right.

But beside that snapping to geometry in those current "3D" orthogonal Views will make you always

unwanted jump in 3rd Axis direction,

I normally use a typical (industrial) 1,20 m visible Grid together with a 0,30 or 0,10 m snapping Grid.

(Additional to my usual, manually drawn, 7,20 m Column Grid, its with potential abnormalities)

[Bruce Kieffer]

So I guess the answer is no, there is no way to snap to grid in any view other than top/plan?

Edited October 16, 2017 by Bruce Kieffer

[Bruce Kieffer]

I just found a workaround, and now I remember that I have used it before, but even so it would be nice if the grid snapping just worked in the other views. The workaround: Switch to screen plan and turn off snap to object.

[zoomer]

As far as I remember, Grid is shown and snap able in 3D Isometrics.

Maybe in front/left/right/back too you just can't see the Grid beside than a line

 

And not to forgot that (in eralier VW versions ?) you could restrict the Grid Display to

paper size (gone now ?), or infinite as I preferred, but in 3D it always was limited by paper size.

 

That is why I use a funny document paper size of about 5,80 m x 3,80 m,

to make my Grid available for the whole building,

which for me is normally located between positive X and positive Y Axis only.

So pity to have to waste ¾ of my Grid useless.

[Bruce Kieffer]

I do find that if I select a center edge point and I use it to resize, and I shift my mouse off center while resizing, then I see the grid snaps as I pass through them, but my object must be aligned to the grid first to make this work.

[zoomer]

yes, object snaps normally have priority and it should work to align such an edge to the grid.

if you want to align a object to the grid you have to zoom in.

I also experienced that when zoomed out you picked the grid and moved the object by grid distance

instead of aligning. strange ....