Snap middle of the minimum distance between two entity's

[Husky]

Hi everybody - I thought it can't hurt to put this "Feature request" also in this rubric - maybe somebody has fun and the time to work on it.

I think this explains everything what I'm looking for - but - if not - just ask.

http://www.ribbonsoft.com/bugtracker/in ... sk_id=1428

Thanks guys!!!

[Clive]

Just added my vote, what an excellent suggestion

[Husky]

Just added my vote, what an excellent suggestion

Thanks Clive!

[riverbuoy]

Hi Husky

I downloaded your example drawing. Playing with the new tool 'Info: Distance Entity to Entity', I realised that this option always finds the shortest distance between any two entities. By checking the box 'add measurement to drawing', a line is printed along with the distance. You can snap to the middle point of the line.

Hope this helps

Regards

riverbuoy

[Husky]

Hello riverbuoy,

Hi Husky

I downloaded your example drawing. Playing with the new tool 'Info: Distance Entity to Entity', I realised that this option always finds the shortest distance between any two entities. By checking the box 'add measurement to drawing', a line is printed along with the distance. You can snap to the middle point of the line.

Hope this helps

Regards

riverbuoy

Yep - that is what I do right now as a workaround. But my goal is to get rid of those unnecessary steps to get this simple task done.

Please consider - if I work on that way I have afterwards to remove this added measurement from the "Distance between two entities" tool. What means the text, the line and the divider. If I have my "help construction" between many other entities it is a pain in the back to remove it. Sure - I can use an extra layer for that but I think you will already agree that is just to much "workaround".

That is the reason why I have ask for a new snap tool. I think it should work like the "Middle Manual" snap tool. Just give it two entities and it will calculate the shortest distance between them and snap to it. I was hoping that the basic code of the "Distance entity to entity" info tool is usable to design this new snap tool but unfortunately I'm not a programmer.

Thanks for looking into this problematic - I appreciate it!