Show On-screen Icon for Off-screen Osnaps

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Summary: Visually display when a snap locates something that is not on-screen.

Description: AutoCAD should visually show an onscreen icon for when a snap locates something (say a line endpoint) which is not on the screen.

It could, for instance, show the endpoint icon at the side of the screen along with an error pointing in the direction of the endpoint located which is not visible.

How Used: Currently users mistakenly select snap point which are off of screen as they do not know AutoCAD has snapped onto something.

This situation is exacerbated by the use of OSNAPZ variable which picks points on Z=0 away from the point selected.

Feature Affinity: Snaps

Submitted By: Kevin Bell on October 16, 2008

[cadtag]

Amen to this one. IIRC - this was a function prior to R2006 that has been lost. In earlier versions a tooltip popped up when the osnap pt was off screen.

[dzatto]

My tooltip still pops up when I snap off screen in ACA 2009. I'm running dynamic input, so maybe that has something to do with it.