Zcenter

Toggles the 3D center entity snap. Snaps to the center of planar or curved 3d faces.

Accessing the Command

command bar: zcenter

transparent: zcenter

toolbar: 3D Entity Snaps |

: zcenter

Displays no prompts in the command bar.

Command Options

Option

Description

zcenter

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

This can be expensive on complex curved faces.

Note that activating the 2D Geometric Center snap is sufficient to snap to the center of planar faces.

Related Commands

3dOsnap - sets the entity snap modes for 3D entities through the Settings dialog box.

-3dOsnap - toggles the entity snap modes for 3D entities at the command line.

OSnap - sets entity snaps through the Settings dialog box.

-OSnap - toggles entity snap modes at the command line .

Aperture - sizes the aperture cursor for entity snaps.

GCenter - toggles Geometric Center (GCenter) entity snap; snaps to the centroid of any closed polylines and splines, planar 3d polylines, regions and planar faces of 3D solids.

Zintersection - Toggles the 3D intersectionpoint snap. Snaps to the intersection of linear entities, edges and polar or entity snap tracking lines with faces.

Zknot - toggles the 3D knot entity snap. Snaps to a knot on a spline.

Zmidpoint - toggles the 3D midpoint snap. Snaps to the midpoint of a face edge.

Znearest - toggles the 3D nearest entity snap. Snaps to a point on the face of a 3D entity that is nearest to the cursor.

Znone - disables all 3d snap modes.

Zperpendicular - toggles the 3D perpendicular entity snap. Snaps to a point perpendicular to a face.

Zvertex - toggles the 3D vertex entity snap. Snaps to the closest vertex of a 3d entity.