{"id":548,"date":"2012-08-21T12:13:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T19:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/jimmartens\/?p=548"},"modified":"2026-03-27T09:19:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T13:19:24","slug":"pads-tips-and-tricks-object-snapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/2012\/08\/21\/pads-tips-and-tricks-object-snapping\/","title":{"rendered":"PADS Tips and Tricks: Object Snapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With PADS 9.4.1, the user was given new controls during the creation and editing of drafting shapes.\u00a0 You can now control how and where the cursor will snap to an oject, including \u00a0corners, midpoints, centers of arcs and circles, intersections of lines and circle quadrants, component origin, pin, and via.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Tkachuk, an AE for CSD, has created Technote <strong>MG579477 <\/strong>which includes a video &#8220;how to&#8221; of this new functionality.\u00a0 Be sure to take a look at<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/supportnet.mentor.com\/reference\/tutorials\/index.cfm?id=MG579477\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/supportnet.mentor.com\/reference\/tutorials\/index.cfm?id=MG579477<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With PADS 9.4.1, the user was given new controls during the creation and editing of drafting shapes.\u00a0 You can now&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16541,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16541"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10342,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/10342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/electronic-systems-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}