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The following table describes the drafting settings.
Drafting settings
Drafting
setting
Description
Snap Restricts cursor movements to measured intervals, or invisible “snap”
points. You can specify snap distances and whether to display a grid
that corresponds to the snap points.
Grid Displays a web of visible dots that you can use as a guide. The dots are
spaced according to the value that you specify in the Snap section of
the Drafting Settings dialog box.
The following illustrations show the grid turned on. In the illustration on
the left, Snap is turned off. The cursor does not snap to the grid points.
In the illustration on the right, Snap is turned on. The cursor snaps to
the grid points.
Snap off, Grid on
Snap on, Grid on
Polar
Tra c k ing
Sets the angles used with polar tracking and sets options for object
snap tracking. Sets the basis by which polar tracking alignment angles
are measured. The following illustration shows an example of polar
tracking:
Object
Snap
Controls running object snap settings and object snap tracking.
Running object snaps automatically snap to points in your drawing
when using a command. For more information see “Object Snaps” in
this chapter.
For more information , use to look up “DSETTINGS Command” in
the online Help.