Jump into the registry editor using Start-Run-regedit (the registry editor is a powerful tool, don't change or delete values unless you know what you are doing!) So I set about to find a way to set OSMODE to 0 and let me choose when I want to osnap it up by clicking the buttons.Īfter poring through the files in the install directory and doing a bunch of googling I found that the osmode default variable resides in the registry, yay!! Changed the entry to '0000' and BAM! no more stupid unwanted snaps! Sooo many plans have different 2D items at different elevations due to bad drafting or conversions from 3D that this cripples the effectiveness of the area tool. This problem is compounded by the fact that you cannot snap to non co-planar points when computing a 2d area. they have hampered the effectiveness of these tools by providing no visible way permanently TURN OFF OSNAP besides clicking on the 'snap none' or _NON button every time. Great! Then Autodesk went one step further and enabled the measurement tools in it!!! Success, now I don't have to compute areas for all these people!! Only one thing wrong.

So I started recommending it as a DWG viewer to my co-workers. I am pretty happy about Autodesk releasing DWG Trueview because I can finally convert those pesky 2009 drawings down to 2004 format with ease!

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