When working on complex scenes, positioning objects is hard when you can’t snap to them.
I have tried SnapToOccluded but it is cumbersome; trying to snap after turning it on is a nightmare as Rhino starts calculating all kinds of hidden snaps.
Current state, snap to occluded OFF.
Current state snap to occluded ON: (snaps to whatever except the Object I want it to snap to).
How it would look with ‘selection snap’ turned on.
Hello- you can set this in Options > ModelingAids
You could also make a macro from -Options to do this from a button or alias
-_Options _ModelingAids _OSnaps
_OnlySnaptoSelected _EnterEnd
-Pascal
Hi Pascal, was not aware of this, but it turns off all other snapping 
I need both normal snapping and selected object snapping to work. I think this should be default behavior.
Hello- so, if there is no selection, snap normally, right? That seems like a good way to me.
-Pascal
Not really, not sure who would find snap ONLY to selected object useful.
Usually one is trying to position an object in respect to another: For instance, Move, the most basic and used function of them all, needs two points, that means two snaps. Start (on selected object) and End (usually snapping to another object, grid, line point or w/e).
Also as it currently is, it makes no sense whatsoever to display in wireframe my select object in shaded mode when it’s occluded, without letting me snap to it by default.
If you are showing something I should be able to snap to it when snapping is on.
Well, keep in mind that you can have objects selected while you draw a line, say. That is what this setting is for, I would say.
Selection nside the Move command - or any transform command - is a different thing I would say, since you are acting direcrly on the selection.
Here if I make a box, with SnaptoOccluded disabled, in a shaded vp, I get to snap to the box in its original position (ghosted wireframe) even if that location is currently occluded by other objects.
Is that good or bad or just not relevant in the context of your question?
-Pascal
I think its awesome we can snap to selected despite occluded.
What I am saying is.
I actually encounter a similar scenario to the one you showed daily:
Now I need to place the selected box on top of the other boxes. So I would like to snap its corner, move from there and snap to the corner of another box.
But I can’t because I need to change settings in preference or run macros mid move command.
But… this is exactly what does work, whether SnapToOccluded is enabled or not, here - I feel like I am completely missing your point…
-Pascal
