Changing the magnetic snap distances

When you enable object snapping, handles and objects lock to each other. When you drag something near a handle on the edge of an object (or the center of a QuickShape) or the edge of an object, it locks to it. Guide snapping and grid snapping work in the same way. You can change how close an object or handle has to be to a guide, grid point or an object.

There are two settings, one for points on objects and one for their edges. The points setting is usually larger so when you drag something along an edge it still obviously lock on to points.

To change the magnetic snapping distances

1. From the Utilities Menu, choose Options (see Options).

2. Click the Mouse tab.

3. Change the settings for the point and line distances.

Movies (not working in this version)

Using object snapping

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Object snapping

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