using grid in MoI

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 From:  -Gwozik- (PP)
4461.1 
hello

I'm just testing V3 beta and it's very, very, very good (maybe a grey dot would help to see that something can be clic where yellow dot appear when object, is selected). Or maybe clic on name would seems more natural ? But well today, my main problem, is using grid in MoI V2.

When I move a cube or a square on the grid, I need to precisely select the corner to move it aligned on the grid. Is there a way to move it easily while keeping it aligned on the grid like in Xara designer. And to let you know, "right clic" in xara designer is a way to duplicate objets very easily, so from my point of view it would be a great feature for MoI.

To be more clear I make a little video :



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 From:  Rudl
4461.2 In reply to 4461.1 
You donĀ“t need Ctrl + V and so on.

Ctrl and the coursor in the right corner is enough.

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 From:  BurrMan
4461.3 In reply to 4461.1 
Hi pp,
If you hold down the ctrl key while dragging something, it will create a copy of it...

When you drag objects, MoI will use the objects snap points also.. In your video, you grabed the cube out in the middle of nowhere a little too much.. Try grab the cube near the corner you want to use for snapping.
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 From:  Michael Gibson
4461.4 In reply to 4461.1 
Hi PP - if you want to position objects so that they snap on to each other (like matching a corner to a corner or things like that), you need to enable the "Object Snap" snap option.

In your video things are more difficult than they need to be, because you do not have Object Snap enabled.

To enable it, click on this button here in the bottom toolbar:



When that is enabled (it will be highlighted in orange when turned on), when you drag an object somewhere close to a snap point it will grab directly on to the snap point and help you to accurately position the object. You just have to grab on to it somewhere nearby the point of interest, you don't have to be quite so precise as in your video. You can also adjust the snap radius under Options > Snaps > Object snap options > "Snap radius", if you want to increase the radius in pixels around the mouse location that will be searched for a snap point to lock on to.

And also as others mentioned above you can hold down the Ctrl key to drag off a copy of an object which is convenient to use in cases like this.

So for example with Object snap enabled and with holding down the Ctrl key, you can do the type of thing that you are showing there way more easily, it looks like this:



So again the key thing there is that Object snap is enabled, and I'm holding down the Ctrl key to make copies while dragging.

Also notice how there are some little tags showing up like "End", "Mid", and "Cen" - those show up when you have object snap enabled and they tell you which kind of snap is currently engaged. When you are dragging an object before locking it on to another one of those tags will also show up on the point on the object that is being positioned.

Usually when you are drawing you will want to have both "Straight Snap" as well as "Object Snap" enabled to help you with these kinds of tasks.

Straight snap helps lock things onto the x, y, or z axis directions when drawing lines or also when dragging objects.

Grid snap is for locking points on to the grid points only - usually if you want to position objects that are relative to other geometry you will want to use Object Snap for that and not grid snap, grid snap can help you to create the starting object and then turn it off once you want to only work on snapping things to existing geometry after that.

So for normal work, have grid snap disabled, and straight snap and object snap enabled - turn on grid snap for a while when you need it for a particular drawing and then turn it back off again once you are done with it.

You can also hold down the Alt key to temporarily disable snaps just for a single pick.

Hope this explanation helps!

- Michael

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 From:  -Gwozik- (PP)
4461.5 
hi,

I was in the wrong direction, because I used to make it in another way in xara.

CTRL Clic is very efficient, and hold down the Alt key to temporarily disable snaps is very usefull.

a thousand thanks!
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