Altium Snap to Grid (and not something else close by)

[mc172]

Does anyone know how to turn off the annoying "smart" snap settings in Altium? I've named it that myself, not sure what it's really called. I'm trying to drag polygons around and it's constantly trying to get the endpoints to snap to some other reference, say, collinear to some other edge of a nearby polygon, instead of just snapping to the grid. It's causing me to have to edit everything twice to get things square or at true 45°.

I've uploaded a picture. I want to get rid of the angular snap lines (in green) and just snap to the grid.

Cheers.

[Pseudobyte]

You can set the snap axis range to 0. Otherwise if you can toggle hotsnap modes by pressing shift+e and cycle between(none aka grid only, single layer, all layers) you can fine tune the axis and point snap range by adjusting the snap distance and axis snap range in the properties window when nothing is selected (shift+c)

[T3sl4co1l]

Hold CTRL to temporarily disable snapping (doesn't work on polygons, you'll still get the green lines to vertices in the object ).

Snapping objects/features are controlled in the document properties (select nothing, open Properties panel).

Tim

[mc172]

Cheers guys. I figured it out: holding shift after selecting the node does the trick.

I only figured it out because I mashed the keyboard in frustration.

[T3sl4co1l]

Fuck me, is that what does it?  That's completely undocumented!  Thank you!

Weird, holding SHIFT seems to make vertex dragging/editing update slower, or something.  At least on the version I have installed.  Go figure...

Tim

[tszaboo]

On the preferences panel, when nothing is selected, you can enable/disable snapping to objects among other things.