- [Instructor] When working with these sketches,
another setting that we want to be aware of is snapping.
It's very simple and easy to understand.
When you draw a new geometry or have existing geometry,
you can see that as I move my cursor around the GUI,
those little dotted lines pop up,
and what's going on is it's snapping into positions
to relate to those entities that are there.
It doesn't snap to the grid by default
like it would in AutoCAD or other softwares,
but it will snap to other existing geometries,
so I can snap it vertically,
I can snap it down or up, I can snap it horizontally,
I can snap right to another point,
and all that means is that it's locating
that endpoint there and just moving
the cursors automatically,
so you don't have to position it perfectly
to the .0000001 decimal point place.
It just does that automatically for you.
So right now, I have the snapping on
and you can see the effect it has as it moves around.
I can quickly drop these endpoints in spots
that are related to other geometry in the model.
If I go up to Tools, Sketch Settings
and turn off Enable Snapping,
now if I go, you can see that nothing is being snapped to.
I can just drag around free-form,
it's not really locating it anywhere specifically.
It's not snapping to a horizontal line or a vertical line.
I'm just literally free-form sketching wherever I want.
That's the same for doing circles, splines, you name it.
It's not snapping to anything.
If you want to turn it back on,
you just go back into Tools,
down to Sketch Settings, and say,
Enable Snapping, and now if you go back in,
you can see just from dragging my cursor around,
it's snapping to various locations
in the interface based on other existing geometry
and making those relations.
So pretty simple setting.
It's been around for a long time,
but sometimes you can turn it off accidentally,
which is good to know where it is
and where those sketch settings are,
so you can flip them back when you need them.