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progeCAD Professional manual The low-cost alternative to AutoCAD
- Introduction
- Getting started
- Working with drawings
- Creating a new drawing
- Opening a drawing
- Setting up a drawing
- Setting the current layer
- Layer Properties Manager
- Creating and naming layers
- Locking and unlocking layers
- Setting the current entity color
- Setting the current linetype
- Setting the linetype scale
- Setting the current lineweight
- Setting the current print style
- Setting drawing units
- Understanding scale factors
- Setting the text height
- Setting the drawing limits
- Working with colors
- Using the grid, snap alignment and cursor restriction
- Using entity snaps
- Setting entity snaps
- Nearest Snap tool
- Endpoint Snap tool
- Midpoint Snap tool
- Center Snap tool
- Perpendicular Snap tool
- Tangent Snap tool
- Quadrant Snap tool
- Insertion Point Snap tool
- Point Snap tool
- Mid between two point Snap tool
- Intersection Snap tool
- Apparent Intersection Snap tool
- Quick Snap command
- Clear Entity Snaps tool
- Using fly-over snapping
- Etrack Snap tracking
- Polar Snap tracking
- Saving your drawing
- Creating simple entities
- Creating complex entities
- Viewing your drawing
- Working with coordinates
- Working with the progeCAD Explorer
- Using the progeCAD Explorer
- Organizing information on layers
- Working with linetypes
- Working with text fonts and styles
- Working with coordinate systems
- Using named views
- Working with blocks and external references
- Working with dimension styles
- Getting drawing information
- Modifying entities
- Working with text
- Dimensioning your drawing
- Working with blocks
- Working with attributes
- Working with external references
- iCADLib
- Printing drawings
- Getting started printing
- Defining layouts for printing
- Customizing print options
- Printing or plotting your drawing
- Print a PDF or JPG file
- Print a Viewport with hidden lines or shaded mode
- Drawing in three dimensions
- Render
- O2C Converter
- Google Earth
- Working with other programs
- Saving and viewing snapshots
- Using data from other programs in progeCAD drawings
- Using progeCAD data in other programs
- Using progeCAD with the Internet
- Other programs
- Image
- Customizing progeCAD
- Setting and changing options
- Customizing menus
- Customizing toolbars
- Customizing the keyboard
- Creating aliases
- Customizing entities
- Creating and replaying scripts
- Programming progeCAD
- Using a digitizer tablet
- Appendix
- Understanding AutoCAD compatibility
- Using enhanced AutoCAD commands in progeCAD
- Using additional selection sets
- Using additional progeCAD commands
- Recognizing subtle command differences
- Identifying what does not display
- Supporting AutoCAD customization
- Understanding menu compatibility
- Importing and exporting customization files
- Programming progeCAD
- progeCAD-AutoCAD list of terms
- Understanding AutoCAD compatibility
- Glossary
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Working with drawings - Using entity snaps
Center Snap tool
Use the Center Snap tool to snap to the center point of another entity. You can snap to the center of an arc, circle, polygon, ellipse, or elliptical arc. To snap to the center, you must select a visible portion of the entity.
To set the Center Snap
- Do one of the following:
- Choose Format > Entity Snap > Center Snap.
- On the Object Snaps toolbar, click the Snap to Center tool (
).Type center and then press Enter.
To snap to the center, select anywhere on the visible portion of the entity ( A ). |
