On 1/5/06, jiho <jo.irisson@...400...> wrote:
Do you understand the difference between grid spacing and snap sensitivity?
I probably didn't and that was the problem ;-) My issue was about precision in snapping but in fact, playing with it more yesterday evening I remarked that setting the snapping to a very large number of screen pixels will only let me put nodes on grid points, which is exactly what I want for a precise work.
Cool, thanks for the clarification. This (AFAIK) again leaves Scislac as the only person who insists on specifying snap sensitivity in document units :)
One additional remark though. My confusion probably came from the fact that pixels where mentioned in the two snapping modes. In fact, the screen pixels do not have to be explicitly mentioned IMHO. It is just an "arbitrary" measure of snapping sensitivity and I do not think that the user really needs to know to how many screen pixels this is set. So I would second the suggestion to have "snap distance" renamed to something like "snap sensitivity"
Agree, and I already proposed that, with most people supporting it. Ralf, can you please do the rename?
and suggest also that the scroll buttons go from 1 to 100 or 1 to 10 or something that does not mention screen pixels directly but underscores the fact that this is just a "measure" of sensitivity and that if you set it high, it will snap more.
To me, 10 is too small, but 100 is too much. Other opinions?
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