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Re: What Is Magnetism
Magnetism doesn't snap to the grid. Otherwise, please search for magnetism in the help, it's cited in many pages!
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Emmanuel Puybaret, Sweet Home 3D developer
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Re: What Is Magnetism
Yes, you are correct that the word shows up multiple times. However, it is not defined in its function nor in relationship to snapping to a grid; which is a reasonable expectation. The novel way it is used in the program dictates a need for a definition.
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However, it is not defined in its function nor in relationship to snapping to a grid; which is a reasonable expectation.
Magnetism is between objects. Snap-to-grid is not magnetism, but as you stated yourself, snapping to the grid I'm not aware of any program where snap-to-grid is called magnetism.
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Re: What Is Magnetism
The most common occurance is where doors and windows slip into a wall and adjust themselves to the wall thickness.
If you drag furniture against a wall it sticks and orientates against the wall so you don't have to manually fit it against the wall.
Objects can also be dragged against each other and have a magnetism point where they 'stick' together, also for easy placement.
Magnetism also causes furniture rotation and wall angles to occur in steps of 15°.
If you switch magnetism off you can set any angle, place doors and windows without deforming into a wall, and move objects over each other without sticking against each other. This is all with mouse movement. When using the arrow keys magnetism is ignored.
