Snapping Settings

In this tutorial, we'll explore the various snapping settings in PlanStudio, understand their functions, and learn how to use them effectively. Snapping settings play a crucial role in how tools behave and interact with existing elements on your floor plan. Let's dive into each setting and its significance:

Snapping Settings

Open the Snapping menu from the Side panel to access & configure your snapping settings. These settings affect how every tool in PlanStudio operates and interacts with other items in your floor plan.

With all snapping settings turned off, you can draw objects at any angle, and they will not automatically join together when creating new segments.

Snapping Sensitivity

By enabling snapping and leaving all other options turned off, you can adjust the Snapping Sensitivity slider. This slider controls how close your cursor or stylus needs to be to the end of another line to make it snap and join. Lower sensitivity requires precision for snapping, while higher sensitivity may lead to unintended joins. Finding the ideal setting depends on your preference, equipment, and drafting style. A setting around 75% is often a good starting point.

Angle Snapping

Turning on Angle Snapping ensures that all walls you draw snap to 22.5-degree increments. This simplifies drawing straight lines and achieving 45 or 90-degree angles.

It is recommended to always keep snapping and angle snapping enabled. If you need to draw walls at odd angles, temporarily disabling these settings and promptly re-enabling them afterward is advisable to maintain accuracy.

Rotation Alignment

Rotation Alignment helps objects you select to snap to a wall or object drawn at an unusual angle. With Rotation Alignment off, manually rotating an object using the selection tool will snap to 22.5-degree angles. With it turned on, the object will snap to be at a right angle to the wall you are trying to match.

Position Alignment

Position Alignment assists in positioning elements in line, at repeating increments, or in the middle of two other elements. When moving a n object with Position Alignment, a guide line appears to indicate that the wall is precisely positioned between the adjacent walls or at the same distance from the last wall as the previous one.

Snap to Other Plans

Snap to Other Plans is useful when you have another level visible as an underlay in your plan. It allows you to snap directly to the walls from the other plan, enabling you to draw over or off them as if they were in the same plan. This is handy for aligning external walls, stairwells, and lifts between levels.

Tool-Specific Snapping

Some tools may not offer snapping options, while others may provide only a few, depending on how they are used and their specific functionalities.

By mastering these snapping settings in PlanStudio, you can enhance your precision and efficiency when drawing and editing elements in your floor plans. Understanding how each setting works will empower you to create accurate and professional floor plans.