![]() ![]() The Geometric Center option allows your pointer to snap to the Geometrical Center (Centroid of the closed shape) of objects in AutoCAD. Hovering near the perimeter of the object will trigger a plus-sign type center object snap, if you click now the line will snap exactly at the center even though you are hovering at the circumference. Select the center snap from the object snap list.Ĭreate one of the curved objects mentioned above then select any Draw command like LINE and hover your cursor near the perimeter of the circular object. With Center Snap, you can snap to the center of any Circle, Ellipse, Arc, or Elliptical Arc. Once again, it doesn’t matter where you click, as long as you see the Midpoint Snap Icon it will always snap to the highlighted midpoint. With the midpoint snap selected and a draw command active move your cursor close to the mid-point of a curve.Ī green triangle indicating the midpoint snap will show up and when you click the cursor will snap exactly to the mid-point. Midpoint Object-Snap allows you to Snap to the midpoint of any line, polyline, arc or spline. Now select the line command and bring your cursor close to the endpoints of the geometries that you’ve made and you will notice that the endpoint will highlight in the green box as shown in the following image.Įven if the cursor is not exactly on the endpoint when the Endpoint Snap icon appears just click and it will snap exactly to the highlighted endpoint. It is the most basic and simple kind of Object-Snap which you would need to keep active most of the time.Īs an example, create a line, a polyline, an arc and a spline. With endpoint snap active AutoCAD will highlight the ends of simple geometries when you bring your cursor to those endpoints with an active command where point input is required. ![]() ![]() EndpointĮndpoints are the points where a curve like Line, Arc, Spline etc terminates. Now that you know what object snaps are let’s explore what these individual snap points are one by one. If your object snap is not highlighting the points then make sure that the Object-Snap icon is highlighted in blue as shown in the image above and your required snap icons are checked in the object snap menu. This helps in exactly snapping to the correct point which is essential to making drawings accurately. If object snap is active and you have an active command where you need to select a point the object snap function will kick in and it will highlight the checked points of the object snap menu. If you keep all the points active then, in a drawing with several points in close proximity AutoCAD might highlight a point that you don’t need and you may end up selecting a point that you don’t need. When required you can activate any specific point then make your drawing using that point and then deactivate it again. ![]() You don’t need to keep only these points active but it’s always advisable to go with the minimum number of snap points. Just in case you are wondering object snap is the status bar toggle option with snap points as shown in the following image.Īs you can see in the image above, I don’t keep all the object snap points active only a few of these points are checked and in my example, these points are Endpoint, Midpoint, Center, Intersection and extension. In this article, I have discussed all of these object snap options and explained them in detail. These options not only let you make drawings precisely but they also speed up the drawing workflow. Making drawings precisely is not possible without the use of AutoCAD object snaps. ![]()
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