TurboCAD Snaps and Dimensioning?

TurboCAD Snaps and Dimensioning?

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20 June 2025 at 21:37 #803910
Nigel Graham 2
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Any TurboCAD users here who can tell me what am I doing wrong, or failing to do, that results in error messages telling me to turn the Snaps off when trying to add dimensions?

Without the snaps you cannot hope to dimension the drawing accurately, and although you can make the dimensions “associative” to follow your changing the entity’s size, as far as I know you cannot use them to set the size.
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21 June 2025 at 08:50 #803947
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If a line has snapped to an existing point(whether the grid or another feature), it’s already fixed and so is its dimension. All you can do is display that dimension, not change it. This is particularly tricky if you didn’t notice the snap happening.

The usual recommendation is to turn snaps and grid display off, and to apply your own snaps and constraints as you go. This saves a lot of frustration….
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