How do I turn off orthogonal snapping?

How do I turn off orthogonal snapping?

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How do I turn off orthogonal snapping?

Anonymous
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I'm doing as-builts of a historic structure and the walls are very slightly out of alignment with the x-y axes. Whenever I'm drawing something that's nearly (but not quite) horizontal or vertical, Revit forces it to be aligned to x-y axes. I don't want that but don't know how to turn it off so that it snaps only to my crooked geometry.

Thanks for any help!

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LisaDrago
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The only way I know of would be to check the Snaps Off check box in the Snaps dialog box or SO keyboard short cut.

 

Otherwise the ortho is locked on.

 

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constantin.stroescu
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Try to uncheck :Angular Dimension Snap Increments from Manage>Snaps

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Anonymous
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I worked it out. I have to hold down the SHIFT, then TAB through my snaps.

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Anonymous
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This might help.
Tick off constrain when you use the Move tool

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ang3la_
Explorer
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I am experiencing the same issue. I have gone through many solutions, yet I still haven't been able to resolve it.

I have a point cloud and need to create as-built drawings. There is a snap option for the point cloud, but I can't get close enough to the cloud points without having to move away to avoid orthogonal snapping. I've explored various suggestions in this post and others, but nothing seems to work.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

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