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Without having to know the exact coordinates, object snaps enable you to quickly locate points relative to existing objects such as center points of circles or midpoints of lines. Use Running Object Snaps Press F3 or click the OSNAP button on the... Read More

Function Description: The AUTOSNAP system variable is used to control the display of the Auto snap marker, tooltip, and magnet. Type : Integer Saved in : Registry Initial value : 63 Range : 0,1,2,4,8,16,32 System Variable Value: 0 : turn off auto... Read More

There are several users asking, why they can’t snap to hatch object, the answer is simple, because they did not enable a drafting option to snap to hatch object. To enable it, simply issue OPTION command. In option dialog box, drafting tab, in... Read More

GstarCAD 2017 brings you a new visual enhancement for two object snap options. On Drafting Settings window, under Object Snap tab, when you select both Distance from Endpoint and Divide Segments options, and you draw an object on the current drawing,... Read More

A frequent problem in objects snaps is the inheritance of the Z value when snapping to a point. GstarCAD addresses this problem with OSNAPZ system variable. If set to 0, osnap uses the z-value of the snapped point. If set to 1, it uses the x+y of the... Read More

There are several users asking, why they can‟t snap to hatch object, the answer is simple, because they did not enable a drafting option to snap to hatch object. To activate it, simply issue OPTION command. In option dialog box, drafting tab, in... Read More

Now within Object Snap tab, you can find a new added option called Distance from Endpoint. This option allows snap a certain distance from any endpoint of objects like line, arc, spline, pline, ellipse arc, mline and any other lines. As long as you... Read More

Function Description: The SNAPUNIT system variable is used to set the snap space for current viewport. Type : 2D pointSaved in : Drawing Initial value : " 0.5000,0.5000 (Imperial) or 10.0000,10.0000 (Metirc) If specified SNAPSTYL to be 1, the X value... Read More

Function Description: The PDFOSNAP system variable is used to determine whether to active object snap for geometric drawing in PDF underlay attached in drawing Type : Integer Saved in : Registry Initial value : 1 Range : 0,1 System Variable Value: 0... Read More

Function Description: The OSNAPZ system variable is used to control whether the object snap automatically project to the plane which is parallel with the XY plane of current elevation in current UCS. Type : Integer Saved in : Not saved Initial value ... Read More