View Poll Results: Should OSNAPS toggle separately from MEP snaps?

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  • This would be useful.

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Thread: Separate OSNAPS from MEP snaps

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    Default Separate OSNAPS from MEP snaps

    I like it the way it was in ABS 05 & 06 (toggle osnaps, while MEP snaps stay on). I've never had a reason to turn off MEP snaps on-the-fly, but I'm always needing the ACAD osnaps out of my way temporarily, while still using MEP snaps. An example of this would be doing a 2D-to-3D conversion, tracing over an xref'd plan.

    Is there a way to code it such that we can leave ACAD osnaps on F3 for mainstream acad users, and configure MEP snaps for a function key that we don't use... say F4? I know some people use tablets, so I don't suggest a universal F-key swap, though I'm all FOR it if that particular toggle is obsolete.

    As little as I would need to turn off MEP snaps, I would be fine with having to open the dialog box and uncheck MEP snap boxes, if there was no way to add another toggle.

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    Default Re: Separate OSNAPS from MEP snaps

    Not much action on this one here, but Adesk Discussion Groups is getting some hits...

    http://discussion.autodesk.com/forum...66297&tstart=0

    Maybe it's time to do some recruiting

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    Default Re: Separate OSNAPS from MEP snaps

    I made a keyboard toggle that set OSMODE and BOSMODE

    Wish I knew how to assign it to F3 and make it a three-way toggle i.e. no snaps/acad snaps/mep snaps

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    Default Re: Separate OSNAPS from MEP snaps

    Quote Originally Posted by cad1.154422 View Post
    BOSMODE
    I believe you mean AecbOsMode.
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    Default Re: Separate OSNAPS from MEP snaps

    Why can there not be a facility whereby we can have the choice of turning off snapping to x-refs, while leaving on snapping to objects WITHIN the drawing?
    This seems so basic and fundamental that I don't understand why it hasn't been a standard feature since....er....ABBA were around?

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    Default Re: Separate OSNAPS from MEP snaps

    Quote Originally Posted by michael.crowhurst View Post
    Why can there not be a facility whereby we can have the choice of turning off snapping to x-refs, while leaving on snapping to objects WITHIN the drawing?
    This seems so basic and fundamental that I don't understand why it hasn't been a standard feature since....
    We snap, both AutoCAD and MEP, to XRefs all the time. However, in the spirit of "no one case fits all" it sounds good to me. Just spend the development dollars of fixing bugs and performance first.
    Quote Originally Posted by michael.crowhurst View Post
    ....er....ABBA were around?
    <snort>
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    Thumbs up Re: Separate OSNAPS from MEP snaps

    Finally joined AUGI just to come vote on this.

    This is a pain, definitely need to be able to toggle MEP snaps separately.

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