How to switch off snap to 135 degrees

[fortywebs]

Hi, My site plan is at an angle just off 135 degrees. Every time I try to mirror something along the line I want, Revit will not let me select points along that line, instead it shows a line at precisely 135 degrees and it will only allow me to mirror along the line it shows. Then when I do that, it displays a box telling me the line is off and may cause inaccuracies - of course it is off - because Revit did not let me mirror along the real line I wanted. How do I turn off this "helpful" feature? Thanks

[barthbradley]

Turn off what? The message?

[fortywebs]

the snap

[hmunsell · Accepted solution]

you can try this... but i have never had it work right.

https://help.autodesk.com/view/RVT/2020/ENU/?guid=GUID-9AAFFC5A-F360-4FA6-8831-F764BE36BA08

you can also type "SO" when you do not want it to snap then "SO" again to turn it back on.

[barthbradley]

Doesn't sound like the snap is your problem.  Just Pin the PL and turn off "Select Pinned Elements".  

[fortywebs]

"SO" turns off the snap to 135, yes - thanks for that. But that also tuns off what I am looking for, which is snap to the corner of the house. There are a number of workarounds - use pick line - seems to be the most sensible solution, or draw the line away from where I want it and then use align, to the position I want it, and move the end nodes to the correct positions. The other option is that if parts of the site plan are orthogonal, copy that part of the site plan away somewhere blank and work on it at the normal angle, then when all the editing is done, group or grab  it all and put it back where it came from.

[barthbradley]

Are you trying to pull an Aligned Dimension between a building corner and property line.  Are you using TAB-Select to find the corner POINT at the building? 

Check this thread out from yesterday: 

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture-forum/snap-to-property-lines/m-p/9575246#M286467

[lgaytanT4PX3]

awesome !!! thanks a buns