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Subject: Some drawing questions
Status Resolved
Product WireCAD v8
Product Level PRO
Database Type VISTADB
Build Number (last 4 digits of version) 1379

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Customer
Hi again! My questions from last ticket:
1) When I draw a single cables, they add up to a common bus only vertically, but not horizontally. It has to be done manually. And if I have a lot of cables and somewhere I made a mistake (due to the large scale, for example), with the addition of jumpers, it turns "spiderweb". How to avoid it? Examples attached.
2) Is it possible to adjust the snap points to the grid?
3) How to set a snap point for the imaginary lines crossing? Screenshots attached.
4) After any action on the drawing, i get reset snap points, and I need to press each time anew for turn it on. How to avoid it?
Thanks.
06-July-2016 (05:17 AM)
Please note that we can only answer one question per ticket. This is so that we can build a searchable knowledgebase. Please let your subject line reflect the content of the question/issue. This is the last multi-question ticket that I will answer.

1) What you are seeing is designed behaviour. The autorouter will attempt to first draw a straight horizontal line to the destination. If the destination can be reached without obstacle the wire is placed. No other cables are considered. Only the source point destination point and non-cable cad entities as obstacles. So the chances that the horizontal portion of any cable lands on any other portion of another cable are going to be small. This is due to the fact that the pins are spaced at differing vertical intervals in the drawing.

2 & 3) There are two document settings. GridSpace X and Y, and SnapSpace X and Y. Set the SnapSpace X and Y to be a divisor of the GridSpace X and Y. For example: consider a GridSpaceX of 1. This will draw the grid line/dot horizontally every 1 Drawing Unit. If you set your SnapSpaceX to be .3 the snap grid will not line up with the display grid because 1/.3 does not produce an integer. I usually set my GridSpace to 1 and SnapSpace to .25.

4) We must differentiate the grid snap(F9) from the object snaps. The object snaps or OSNAP as it is called are drawing helpers that retreive END Points/MID Points etc. of geometry that exists in the drawing. The OSNAPS are unaware of the Grid Snap and vice versa. You are probably wanting to turn on Grid Snap (F9) to position something on the grid or rather the snap grid (which may be different from the Display Grid - see above).
06-July-2016 (06:20 PM)
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