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    Activating ProStructures Snaps.

      Product(s): ProStructures
      Version(s): All
      Area: Global Settings
      Subarea: Snaps
      Original Author: Roger Belen, Bentley Product Advantage Group
    Updated By: Vyanktesh Nama, Bentley Product Advantage Group

    Overview

    When working with ProStructures elements it is always best to turn on the ProStructures snaps. This wiki explains how to enable the ProStructures snaps and it's usage.

    Steps to be follow

    1. Open the Global Settings or Options by holding the right mouse button in the View window and then click on the Options. Or search ‘Global Settings’ in the Search Ribbon and click on it to open it.

    2. Left-click on the Snaps page and set the settings as shown in the below image. ProStructures Snaps, ProStructures Legacy Snaps and ProStructures Tooltip can also be enable or disable from the PS Toggles.

    Now for the snaps you have following three options.

    • Enable ProStructures Snaps: When this is checked, it enables snapping to ProStructures insertion points. These are ten cardinal points at start, middle, end of steel shapes, concrete beams, and concrete columns.

       

      ProStructures snaps, which will magnet to the points shown here switching between them using the keyboard arrows. They will magnet to the start and end points and any of the closet points along the length of the object according to the Keypoint Snap setting (enabled with the “K” key).



    • Enable ProStructures Legacy Snaps: When this is checked, it enables snapping to centerline points at the start, middle, and end of steel shapes along the same dividing point set by the keypoint snap. This option is disabled when Enable ProStructures snaps is checked.



    • Enable ProStructures Tooltip: When this is checked, it enables the display of tooltip comments on snaps. The tooltip is context sensitive and can be configured by editing the …\prg\tooltips.ini file in the ProStructures installation folder.

      For more information about ProStructures Tooltip, please follow the below wiki links.

      • ProStructures Object tooltips_how to use and customize?
      • How to customize tooltip file to display various parameters of the steel and rebar in the tooltip?

    See Also

    • ProStructures Help: ProStructures Options - Snaps tab
    • Set Multiple Snaps
    • Snap Points Hard To Use In 2d Drawings
    • Snap Points not available in the 2D drawing.
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    • Snaps tab
    • ProStructures Legacy Snaps
    • Activating ProStructures Snaps.
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    • ProStructures tooltip
    • ProSteel
    • ProConcrete
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    • Roger Belen Created by Roger Belen
    • When: Mon, May 18 2015 2:01 AM
    • Vyanktesh Nama Last revision by Bentley Colleague Vyanktesh Nama
    • When: Wed, Oct 13 2021 7:45 AM
    • Revisions: 12
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