Hi NiteOwl,

> Hmmm, I was using "Show points' and 'Object snap' so it did
> not occur to me to look from the front.

When you're working in a 2D view, object snaps are projected to go through the plane of their base point, so for example if you're drawing a line in a 2D view it will end up as a line that's flat in a parallel plane to the Top view.

That basically helps keep things that you draw in a 2D view to actually be 2D planar objects rather than possibly having some separate portions of the same shape on different levels.

But if you pick your object snapped points in the 3D view it does not do that kind of projection, it goes directly to the 3D point when you're working in the 3D view. The basic assumption there is that if you're working in the 3D view then you want more 3D results and if you're working in the 2D views you want more 2D type results.


You can turn off the 2D type nature of drawing in the 2D view if you want by going to Options > Snaps > Object snap options > "Project to plane in ortho views" . But if you turn it off then keep in mind that if you draw something in the top view and snap just some points of a curve that you're drawing, some of the points of that curve will be on different z levels.

- Michael