Drawing Snaps

[tprice71]

Is there a way to control the snaps in drawings? I need a mid point snap. All I see is end point, center and quad.

[HughesTooling]

Midpoint is on the sketch palette. If you need a midpoint while drawing hold the shift key down and drag along the line near the midpoint.

Edit. Looks like midpoints highlight without the shift key while sketching. You only need shift while adding dimensions and constraints.

[HughesTooling]

I should have read a bit more carefully I see you are asking about in the 2d drawing workspace not a sketch. No I don't think midpoints are available in the drawing workspace.

[HughesTooling]

Can you attach a screen grab of what you're trying to dimension. I might have a workaround but it's quite ugly.

Mark

[tprice71]

It is nothing earth shattering, but in this clip I was wanting to dimension from the back edge to the center of the groove on this small bookcase side. I dim'ed the width of the groove and the back spacing. Simple math to find the center line, but I was looking for a mid snap for the side view and couldn't find it. 

[HughesTooling · Accepted solution]

How about using a centre line on the side view, just pick the 2 short lines.

[tprice71]

Sweet! That works!

Thanks!

[patl1]

The question was "Is there a way to control the snaps in drawings? " not ("in sketches"). Is there a way to control snap points in drawings?

[harry.doldersum]

I also would really appreciate additional snaps in 2D drawings, midpoint snap most of all. 

Also, can I propose that the 2D drawing environment as a whole would benefit from a bit of extra TLC...?  It's improved over time, surely - but there's also still quite some ground to cover...  🙂

[Pramod.kadam · Accepted solution]

Hi @tprice71 @harry.doldersum and all,

Fusion drawing do have midpoint snap.

By default when you start the Dimension tool, all snaps are available but if you need any specific snap, just right click and select that snap e.g. midpoint. Once you select that, only midpoints will be snapped.

I hope this helps. Thanks,

[harry.doldersum]

Hi @Pramod.kadam

Thanks for pointing that out, much appreciated - I was totally unaware.

Mind you, I don't get these additional snaps by default: is that a setting I've got wrong somewhere?

In any case, right clicking does give me access to the menu shown & midpoint is then available - that's excellent, very happy with that. 🙂