Smart track, smart just not too bright

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Hi,

One of the main reasons I never use smart track is that it doesn’t have the ability to snap to the in creation parts of a curve or polyline work. One of things that irks me is; when creating a polyline, latter in the construction of it, smartTrack can’t even snap or leave a point at the mid point of line segments that are created earlier in the polyline command.

I know the command is in progress but the previous linework is there and smart track should know how to snap or find the midpoint of a line segment drawn using the polyline command while the command is active. Not having this makes smart track less usable.

RM

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I would have sworn you could do that, apparently not. I didn’t see a existing feature request either.

RH-91021 Ability to snap to the ongoing object (polyline)

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to get a midpoint you need to “smart touch” the 2 segement points:

_lines
.....^

offers different behaviour then
_polyline

a macro comining

_lines
_sellast
_join

might help.

??

a lot of stuff is possible with _from and _between

kind regards - tom

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Hi @Japhy

Thanks for adding that.
I think only the points snap works for me in V7 to snap to endpoints in creation. End, mid snaps both don’t work.

I am aware of this workaround

but it doesn’t always work or it’s hard for rhino to find the mid point and is cumbersome. Also we have to turn “points snap” on to snap to endpoints, so end should work as well. I think getting both end and mid snaps to work for geometry in creation will make this command more robust.

Thanks for your consideration,

RM

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RH-91021 is fixed in the latest Rhino WIP. Please give it a try.

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Hi @dan

Thanks very nice of you to put in a quick fix.
RM

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