chadsmith Posted May 5, 2003 Share Posted May 5, 2003 In AutoCAD the snaps are great! you can toggle through snaps and move around and work efficiently. In Viz or MAX I try using the snaps on a building model and forget it! It takes 4 minutes just for the program to calculate where the first snap should go much less toggling between snaps. It also prevents me from panning or doing anything in snap mode. Is there some kind of script that makes snaps quicker and able to be used? Will snaps work with anything larger than a low poly model? When I import an AutoCAD drawing and try to snap to that then things get rrreeeaaally slow! Help if you can, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hiroshi Posted May 11, 2003 Share Posted May 11, 2003 It might be the amount of ram that you are using. How much do you have installed in your system? The snaps work fine for me; I'm using 256mb of ram. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted June 8, 2003 Share Posted June 8, 2003 Don't activate ALL snaps! Set snap to 2.5D and use vertex, end point, (midpoint) for most occasions. rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJL Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 The prior suggestion of activating a few snaps at a time is a good one. That being said, however, snaps have been one of MAX's weaknesses for a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilson Iwazawa Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 I dont know if im crazy but i aways liked the Max snaps, i love the 2.5d and 3d modes, i dont know if everybody knows really to use it. Autocad should have something like it. For example, has anybody working on a site drawing and discovered (after drawing many things) that you cant trim? and gone to the left view and see that the lines are all disarraged on Z axis? Its frustrating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHE Posted July 19, 2003 Share Posted July 19, 2003 I migrated from ACAD to Max as well. At first I found snaps to be very frustrating too. Today I can say that I would never go back to ACAD to do 3D at all. My advice to you is to PRACTICE. Learn all the snaps functions that Max offers. Explore the transform constraint options and the advantages of 2d, 2.5d and 3d snaps. I'll assure you that in no time you'll find Max's snap system very powerful. Good luck BTW turn off your snaps when paning, etc. Turn them on only when you need them. The hotkey is S. [ July 19, 2003, 09:57 AM: Message edited by: CHE ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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