topic Re: Turn off Snapping in Drawing in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Turn off Snapping in Drawing

neljoshua — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 22:40:25 GMT

Sometimes after creating a note or moving a dimension, I want to move it in order to clean a drawing up or make it easier to read. The screenshot shows an instance where there are a high density of part numbers in a small area. Moving them is a pain right now, because Fusion seems to want to snap to everything. I would like a way to turn off snapping in the drawing environment to make this task easier and faster.

Fusion tries to snap to another balloon or the previous position of the currently-selected one. In this picture, it is trying to snap to the "4" balloon. I know there is a way to align the balloons. My gripe, however, still stands, as the line used to align the balloons can also snap to everything. Also, I have had issues with this when creating notes and moving dimensions.

Snapping can be useful in some instances, but in my opinion there should always be a way to turn it off. Ideally this would be the same across all environments.

Perhaps there is a way to do this, but I cannot figure it out. Pressing "cmd" or "control" does not prevent snapping.

Re: Turn off Snapping in Drawing

cmiller66 — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 23:29:56 GMT

Hi Josh,

Short answer, you're not missing anything, we don't support this (yet) but it is a very valid suggestion. We do have snap improvements on the road map, but I don't have a timeframe for you. I will forward this request to the team.

Thanks,

Chris

Re: Turn off Snapping in Drawing

neljoshua — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 23:45:30 GMT

@cmiller66,

Thanks for the info.

Re: Turn off Snapping in Drawing

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 22:37:22 GMT

So I have a very similar problem. In most of my drawings I have no issue. Snaps seem to work fine and I can move things around. But I recently hit some random key combination that suddenly turned on some kind of grid snaps at every 6 inches or so. Any idea how to turn off grid snaps on a drawing file?

Re: Turn off Snapping in Drawing

khokeson — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 20:02:22 GMT

Guys is there really still no way to turn off grid snap in drawings? I can't even properly mark up a drawing because notes snap to incredibly frustrating places.

Re: Turn off Snapping in Drawing

david29ZPM — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 16:54:50 GMT

To echo what is being said here, I also experience this from time to time. I was just editing the scale of a view, adding some leaders and at some point snaps randomly got turned on for just one page of my drawing, it's extremely frustrating. Is there still no solution?

Re: Turn off Snapping in Drawing

boltsonsite — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:26:36 GMT

2025 and still no fix??? trying to rotate a part in a detail drawing but snaps are driving me mad!!!!!

Re: Turn off Snapping in Drawing

ccyokes — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:16:52 GMT

Hoping this gets added someday... literally just disable snapping while holding the control or alt key. Would be simple and quick to implement and save a lot of actions either zooming way in to get enough pixels between snap points or going into the right click menu for every action to disable the snapping one point at a time.

For the included photos, you can see that in some situations a line REALLY wants to snap rather than allow you to place it wherever you want. This was taken while adding a sketch to a drawing. Adding manufacture details that aren't in the model, things that are far easier to annotate after than try to model in. The right click menu while you have the tool selected at least allows it, but a hotkey would be much preferred. Control for no snap, alt for mid snap? Those are the two I would like at least.

Re: Turn off Snapping in Drawing

g-andresen — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:22:38 GMT

Hi,

I would just like to point out that this topic was about the behavior in drawing mode, but not in sketches.

Deactivate these settings in the preferences and create snap points with the projection tool.

günther

Re: Turn off Snapping in Drawing

ccyokes — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:28:34 GMT

The behavior is closely related as it has to do with curser snapping across all sketching and dimensioning methods. My example was demonstrated in one area, but it applies to many. Projection would remove potentially unneeded lines in some cases, but the root of the issue is still snapping behavior and the request to have snapping be able to be disabled at will at the push of a button rather than toggling modes for every action.

When I get the chance I will experiment with disabling those, but I’m pretty sure that will have other consequences for features I use that will make it not worthwhile here.

Re: Turn off Snapping in Drawing

litmusindustries — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:03:32 GMT

Adding to this, the snapping in the drawing workspace is ridiculous.

I'm trying to sketch a simple rectangle and even if i draw it pretty far away from any corners, it snaps ALL 4 corners to 2 of the points, essentially making a line that you can't even see because it just lands on top of the existing drawing view. I have to draw the rectangle far away, then move it (which is a pain because if you grab it wrong it skews the shape) and even then it might take 2 or 3 tries to get it where i want without snapping again.