When creating profiles, sketches, drawings, moving faces, and defining feature extents, you use snap-to-keypoints. You can use shortcut keys and QuickPick to snap to keypoints and intersections. This applies the point coordinates to the command in progress.
You can use the shortcut keys when:
Creating lines, points, arcs, curves, circles, and ellipses.
Dimensioning the distance or angle between elements.
Adding many types of annotations.
Defining patterns.
Defining extents during feature creation.
Defining locations when moving selected model faces.
You also can use the shortcut keys with commands that manipulate 2D elements: Connect, Move, Mirror, Rotate, Scale, and Stretch.
Once you have located an element with the cursor, you can use the following shortcut keys to snap to keypoints and intersection points.
Midpoint - press M.
Intersection point - press I.
Note:
Keypoint is not available for creating features and moving faces.
Center point - press C.
Endpoint - press E.
Tip:
To help you remember what the shortcut keys are, note that the letters can be arranged to spell the word mice.
Shortcut keys are not case sensitive.
Once you have selected a model face, you click the move handle on the steering wheel, and then press the K key to turn on the M C E shortcut keys. Even if the keypoints are turned off on the command bar, the K key overrides this setting. Pressing the K key again reverts to the initial state.
If you press I to specify an intersection point, and if there are multiple eligible intersection points, then QuickPick opens with a list of the possible intersections for the elements located with the cursor, with the most recent intersection listed first. For example:
If there is only one eligible intersection point on the elements you located with the cursor, then that intersection point is selected and applied automatically to the command in progress.
You can snap to certain keypoints using the C, E, and M keys, as illustrated here.
Example 1: To snap to a circle or arc center point, locate the element and then press C.
Examples 2 and 3: Endpoints are selected based on cursor proximity to an endpoint. To snap to the endpoint of a line, arc, or curve, locate the end of the element you want to select and press E.
Example 4: To snap to the midpoint of a line or arc, locate the element and then press M.
The Relationships page on the IntelliSketch dialog box controls the types of points that can be located. To support the snap-to-point feature, the End point, Midpoint, Center point, and Intersection point types are set by default.
