Quadrant

Works with Bricscad (Windows) Classic, Pro and Platinum, Bricscad (Linux) Classic and Pro

Snaps to the quadrant points of circles, arcs, and polyarcs.

Accessing the Command

command bar: quadrant

transparent: quadrant

toolbar: Entity Snaps |

: quadrant

Displays no prompts in the command bar.

The quadrant points are located at the 90-degree points of circular entities:

When quadrant snap is on, the cursor snaps to the 90-degree points of circles, arcs, and polyarcs.

Command Options

Option

Description

Quadrant

Entering this command toggles Quadrant entity snap. It snaps to the 90-degree quadrant points on curved entities.

This command can be entered transparently during commands, but must be entered without the apostrophe prefix ( ' ).

Related Commands

OSnap - toggles entity snap modes in the Settings dialog box.

-OSnap - toggles entity snap modes in the command bar.

Aperture - sizes the aperture cursor for entity snaps.

2dIntersection - toggles apparent intersection snap mode.

3dIntersection - toggles intersection snap mode.

Apparent - toggles apparent intersection snap mode.

Center - toggles center snap mode.

Endpoint - toggles endpoint snap mode.

Extension - toggles extension snap mode.

From - allows to enter relative coordinates with respect to a reference point.

Insertion - toggles insertion snap mode.

Intersection - toggles intersection snap mode.

Midpoint - toggles midpoint snap mode.

Mtp - allows to specify a point as the midpoint between two points.

Nearest - toggles nearest snap mode.

Node - toggles node (point) snap mode.

None - turns off all entity snap modes.

Parallel - toggles parallel snap mode.

Perpendicular - toggles perpendicular snap mode.

Quick - toggles quick snap mode.

Tangent - toggles tangent snap mode.