Align to grid

[Santtu]

Hi

 

I there the former Connectcad "align to grid" option still somewhere? The former connectcad had option under right mouse click that aligned the device and connectors to grid.

 

The usual Vectorworks align does the alignment by the outer edges of the shape.

[Conrad Preen]

Hi Santtu

 

You are right and Vectorworks Align To Grid has an update in SP4 to handle this. The older Vectorscript command has been removed since in any case it was incompatible with the new Device objects.

 

Best

 

Conrad

[Daniel Dickman]

Can't wait for this feature to come back. I was pulling my hair out yesterday when I would duplicates devices (option + click drag, not copy paste) and devices were still landing off grid sometimes.

[Conrad Preen]

Hey Daniel

 

Surely with the right snap settings Option-click-drag would stay on the grid if the original object was correct? I always recommend turning off all snaps except snap-to-grid when doing schematics. And uncheck the Vectorworks preference Offset Duplications too. That way it's real hard to go off-grid.

 

Conrad

[mcschaefer]

7 hours ago, Conrad Preen said:

I always recommend turning off all snaps except snap-to-grid when doing schematics. And uncheck the Vectorworks preference Offset Duplications too.

 

Just came here to put in a request to create a "setting up your workspace"/ "best practices" guide in VW university which includes information like this.

 

Thanks!