What is SmartPick ?

SmartPick is a smart and easy-to-use positioning tool that assists you when using most of the commands for creating Sketcher geometrical elements.

SmartPick gives you higher productivity by decreasing the number of the interactions necessary for positioning these geometrical elements.

See Also
SmartPicking
About Geometry Using SmartPick
About SmartPicking Background Elements

Using SmartPick, you will easily specify a location:

  • Somewhere on the grid
  • Using coordinates
  • On a point
  • At the extremity point of a curve
  • At the midpoint of a line
  • At the center of a circle or an ellipse
  • All over a curve
  • At the intersection point of two curves
  • Aligned at a vertical/horizontal position
  • On the fictitious perpendicular line through a line end point
  • Any of the above cases possibly combined together, whenever possible.

You can specify this location by providing information using as above mentioned the blue pointer, coordinates, the contextual menu and Shift/Ctrl keys. As you specify your needs, the scope of the available possibilities is shorten for eventually locating the elements as required.

Important: If you position the pointer outside the zone that is allowed for creating a given element, the symbol appears.