"Create Coil" won't snap to anything... why?

[glencandle]

As you can see I have "auto project geometry on active sketch plane" enabled, yet my parametric coil still won't find anything to snap to.  I've tried pretty much everything at this point.  Feels like a glitch. 

Screen capture attached (annoyingly Windows removes all the other windows and tools so you can only see the viewport).  Am I missing something?

[g-andresen]

Hi,

1. Does the coil already exist or do you want to create it at a specific point?
2. if it already exists you can use Move > point to point or if components exist you can use joints.

günther

[glencandle · Accepted solution]

Hi Guenther, thanks for your response.  

1. I want to create the coil at a specific point

2. I have tried the point to point move to no avail (it won't let me select any points on my coil for some reason), and I don't know how to work with joints yet but thank for your suggestion, I can look into that... 

But from what I have learned and seen online, the coil should snap to any point when I am trying to create it.  Why wouldn't this work?  Is there another setting I need to have turned on, other than the one I mentioned?

[jhackney1972 · Accepted solution]

Coil is a Primitive and as such it will only attach originally to the origin point on the plane you are creating it.  You can however move it to any point your desire as @g-andresen said.  You can also add a point to the coil to allow the movement "from" a different origin point as shown in the Screencast. 

[glencandle]

Ah, thanks this makes a lot more sense now (re: primitive attaching to
origin point on plane). I've figured out how to make it work now,
thanks so much!