Setting Snap Increments; Enabling And Disabling Snaps; Temporarily Overriding Snap Settings - Autodesk 24000-000000-9860 - Revit Architecture - PC User Manual

You can enable or disable object snaps, and specify dimension snap increments. You can also override snap
settings using keyboard shortcuts. You set snap settings in the Snaps dialog, and settings are held for the
duration of the Revit Architecture session. Snap settings apply to all files open in the session, but are not
saved with a project.
Jump Snaps
Jump snaps are any snap points that are away from the current position of the cursor. For example, if you
are resting the cursor on the midpoint of a wall, a jump snap might display at the endpoint of the wall.
Jump snaps occur when you clear the check box for the Nearest object snap in the Snaps dialog.

Setting Snap Increments

When you place an element or component in a project view, it snaps to set dimension increments. For
example, when you are sketching a wall and move the cursor from left to right in the drawing area, you see
the dimensions for the wall increase according to the defined length dimension snap increments. Likewise,
when you place an element by an angle, angle snap dimensions increase according to the defined angle
dimension snap increments.
You can define multiple length and angle snap increments since increments change as you change your
zoom level (the closer you zoom in, the smaller the increment; the further you zoom out, the larger the
increment).
To set snap increments:
1 Click Settings menu
2 Select Length dimension snap increments and Angular dimension snap increments to turn on
3 Enter the snapping increment values, separating increments with semicolons. There is no limit
4 Click OK.

Enabling and Disabling Snaps

1 Click Settings menu
2 Do one of the following:
3 Click OK.
You can also enable and disable snaps by right-clicking and selecting Snap Overrides
have selected an element or component to place in the drawing area.

Temporarily Overriding Snap Settings

When you are working in a project, you can use shortcut key combinations or the right-click context menu
to temporarily override snap settings. Temporary overrides affect a single pick only.
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Snaps.
the snaps.
to the number of increments you can specify.
Snaps.
Select Snaps Off to disable all snapping in the project.
Select or clear the appropriate object snaps. For object snap descriptions, see
and Snap Shortcut Key Combinations on page 496.
Object Snaps
Snaps Off after you