Snapping
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Qonic supports two types of snapping during modeling operations.
Picking of a point on a surface, for example when selecting a starting point when creating new geometry. Supported snapping point are vertices of existing geometry, as well as cylinder axis endpoints. The manipulator handle will be highlighted in blue to indicate it is snapping to something.
Picking a plane when doing a modeling operation along one axis, for example when push/pulling a face or moving a body in a given direction. Supported snap targets are surfaces parallel to the selected face, or clusters of vertices, edges, edge midpoints and/or cylinder axes in a plane parallel to the selected face. The selected face will be highlighted in green, and the active snap target(s) will be highlighted in blue for clear visual feedback about what you are aligning the selected face with. Note that the calculation of the possible snap targets per modeling operation happens in the background and can sometimes take a few seconds. This means on larger models, the snapping will only kick in after these calculations are done. Also note that in larger models, there may be an 'overwhelming' number of possible snap targets depending on the operation you are doing. Therefore snap targets are ranked and filtered on relevancy, based on factors such as
Scale - larger objects are more likely to be relevant than smaller objects,
IFC class - when moving a wall, you don't necessarily want to align with a chair or lamp,
Proximity to the selected object - closer objects will likely be more relevant,
Proximity to the camera - closer objects will likely be more relevant.
If you want to align with a specific surface, but the surface doesn't show up as snap target - either because the calculation hasn't finished yet or because it was filtered out because of the above factors - you can still override this by hovering your cursor over the surface until it is highlighted in blue. Left-clicking the highlighted face will pick that face as the new snap target. This type of snapping can be disabled by going to your profile in the top-right corner and under Settings disabling the Snapping toggle.
