Re: Running Osnap Question

When you get close to the line, do you see a tick mark at the center? 
What's happening is that once you hover over the line, it activates a tick 
mark over the center of the circle.  You can't snap to this point until you 
move your cursor to the center, at which time the actual marker comes up 
(and if you've got "magnet" on, it'll jump to it once you get close
enough).

The snap is activated when the marker appears, and that is when your line 
will start at the snap point.

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Joshua Tapp

<toddrob> wrote in message news:5918951@discussion.autodesk.com...
Can someone help me understand Osnap settings? I have a symbol in my symbol 
library of an electrical connection point drawn as a donut (LWPOLYLINE). If 
I want to draw a line from the center of this object, I can select
"line", 
"cent" and move the aperture close to the object and it will snap to
the 
center of the donut like it is supposed to do. If I try to do the same thing 
using the running Osnap with only the "center" snap mode selected, it
does 
not work. Why?

With the running Osnap on, I select line, move the aperture close to the 
object, I can see the cross mark in the center of the donut, then click near 
the object and the line starts from wherever I click not grabbing the center 
point as it does when just doing this manually selecting "cent" as the
start 
point.

This is not something I typically do, I am just using this as an example to 
get a point across to try to understand why this does not working using the 
running Osnap. It seems to me that you should be able to perform the same