Cursor grid snapping

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• Matthias

  April 1 edited April 1

  There are multiple grids you can configure:

  1. drawing grids

  Use "File/Setup" "Application/Default Grids" to specify one or many grids. You can pick one of them from the "View/Grid" menu during drawing.

  These are mine:

  

  2. ruler snapping

  Set the grid in "File/Setup" "Application/Grid".

  The different grids become active in the different modes. Drawing grids in the drawing modes (Box, Polygon, Text, Path, Instance). Ruler grids in the ruler mode. You do not actually need to draw something. Just picking a mode is enough.

  The coordinate display follows the mode specific grid.

  Matthias
• mpee

  August 6

  Hi Matthias,

  Sorry for my very late reply, I did miss the reply notification...
  I followed your instructions (which I've tried also already before), but whatever I do, it is not snapping to a grid...
  

  Any idea what's wrong here?

  Many thanks,
  Martin
• Matthias

  August 10

  Could you check "Edit/Ruler and annotations setup"?

  Maybe "Snap to grid" is disabled?

  

  Matthias
• dick_freebird

  August 11

  I sense that the question is about the cursor
  itself and whether its movement can be made
  "steppy".

  I believe the cursor movement is a separate
  thing from the behavior of objects being
  moved or made, by it. Those commands are
  subject to the command-snap setting(s).

  But expect those are -applied- to a raw cursor
  position, rather than the cursor position itself
  becoming "notched".
• Matthias

  August 12

  Hi @dick_freebird,

  Cursor movement follows the grid applied to the specific tool.

  This is best seen when you enable "Mouse tracking" in File/Setup -> Application/Tracking with a cross hair cursor.

  If you do so, the tracking cursor becomes "steppy" using the grid applied in the tool you have selected. In "Select" mode, no grid is applied, while in "ruler" or one of the drawing modes, the selected grid is applied.

  Matthias
• mpee

  August 19

  Hi Matthias,
  Many thanks, your suggestion did work out for me... Also the steppy-mouse is now enabled (while using e.g. ruler or box etc)...
  Following Settings were applied:

  Setup->Application->Tracking->Mouse tracking [X]
  Setup->Application->Grid 0.005um
  Setup->Rulers And Annotations->Snapping->Snap to grid [X]
  Setup->Rulers And Annotations->Snapping->Snap to edge / vertex [X]

  Best Regards,
  Martin