Redefine or Remove an OSNAP?

[madcadder]

I need to remove an OSNAP. I have a guy who is constantly using NEAREST. By doing so his 3/4 come out 0.7500126 or his 12" is 12.00008442.
It dimensions correctly, it builds correctly, but he's the only one in the office that can seem to make a 0.75 come out to 0.75000000

So is there a way to redefine an OSNAP to something like an ESC?

[tedg]

So this user is using in on the fly or part of his osnaps "drafting settings"?

I don't know how you would disable the "nearest" snap, but maybe force an OSMODE value in an Acaddoc.lsp (force them to have the snaps active they need without "nearest" so it's inconvenient to use).
And/or make them follow proper drafting standards and not use "nearest" when its crucial to be accurate and snap to something real or key it in.

We had a guy like that, he doesn't work here anymore

[Opie]

Sounds like a management issue and not a technological issue.

[Ed Jobe]

Sounds like a management issue and not a technological issue.

I agree with Opie and Ted. Why should you spend money developing a workaround for an extremely bad habit??? Not only is it a management issue, but an expensive business issue. Just use the "change or else" clause.

But if you must, you can monitor the SysVarChanged event and do a bitwise check. If it includes the constant for nearest, just change it back or cancel the event.

[Tom Beauford]

All ONAPS are needed at one time or another!
Amazes me how many users struggle with the simplest things.
I cannot count the times I've seen someone zoom way in to make sure they snapped to the endpoint of a line in an area crowded with other possible snapping points when all they needed to do was hover any clear area over that half of the line to make sure they got the right endpoint.

Many cannot grasp that scrolling with the mouse to zoom uses the mouse location for zooming allowing them to go anywhere in a drawing quickly without entering a command. I'll see them zoom out, pan, then zoom back in.

I refuse to customize AutoCAD for anyone who hasn't learned how to use the basic interface, I'll just keep explaining how to use it as often as I have to.

[BIG-AL]

My $0.05 (setvar 'osmode 47) or just osmode 47

[madcadder]

The answer so far seems to be the public humiliation direction. We had a nice 45 minutes of going over all the places I keep finding these little errors. I started taking his drawings and putting a big rectangle around areas that he needs to look at to find them.
But he stammered and stuttered on not knowing how it keeps happening, to the point where others stepped in and gave suggestions on how to keep it from happening. I'm not sure any of them really sank in.
But... on a positive note, I guess... We are busy enough that we are constantly on and off 50 hour weeks. He hates having to come in at 6am, so he confided that he has started looking around.

[tedg]

The answer so far seems to be the public humiliation direction. We had a nice 45 minutes of going over all the places I keep finding these little errors. I started taking his drawings and putting a big rectangle around areas that he needs to look at to find them.
But he stammered and stuttered on not knowing how it keeps happening, to the point where others stepped in and gave suggestions on how to keep it from happening. I'm not sure any of them really sank in.
But... on a positive note, I guess... We are busy enough that we are constantly on and off 50 hour weeks. He hates having to come in at 6am, so he confided that he has started looking around.

That's too bad that this user would rather change jobs then to do a better job. Mistakes can cost money.
I feel your pain, you have so much work you all need to put in tons of hours, but that doesn't excuse sloppy work.

Hopefully they will learn from this, or... become someone else's problem.
(but then you need to find another cad operator, which is tough)

[luciamartyn522804410]

I need to remove an OSNAP. I have a guy who is constantly using NEAREST. By doing so his 3/4 come out 0.7500126 or his 12" is 12.00008442.
It dimensions correctly, it builds correctly, but he's the only one in the office that can seem to make a 0.75 come out to 0.75000000

So is there a way to redefine an OSNAP to something like an ESC?

It is possible to remove or redefine an OSNAP in AutoCAD. Here's how you can do it:

Type "OSNAP" in the command line and press enter.
In the Object Snap Settings dialog box, uncheck the checkbox next to the OSNAP mode you want to remove.
Click OK to save the changes.

[BIG-AL]

One of the better ways is make you own osnap combo's so switch quickly when needed, this is done by making some simple lisp defuns 1 for each osnap setting, ok now when you set osnaps it stores only 1 number not multiple ticks, so just set your osnaps then type osmode, look at the number, change your osnaps, type osmode again look at number.

Ok now code.

(defun C:15 ()(setvar "osmode" 15359))   ; sets all snaps on
(defun C:47 ()(setvar "osmode" 47)(setvar "AUNITS" 0))
(defun C:99 ()(setvar "osmode" 99))
(defun C:8 ()(setvar "osmode" 8))
(defun C:59 ()(setvar "osmode" 15359))
(defun C:9 ()(setvar "osmode" 9))
(defun C:0 ()(setvar "osmode" 0)) ; snaps off

This example uses numbers but you could use 01, snap1 and so on.

In some command you can call the osnap transparently resetting osnaps on the fly rather than mouse right click.

Line '47 pickpoint pickpoint
Note the ' single quote for transparent command.