Incremental Snapping

When translating, rotating, and scaling elements, you can snap incrementally. Instead of snapping to a target, elements jump in discrete increments from their current values. This is useful if you want to move an element by exact multiples of a certain value, but keep it offset from the global grid.

NoteIf both incremental and target snapping are active at the same time, incremental snapping takes priority.

To snap incrementally

Do one of the following:
- Press Shift while rotating or translating an element.
- Press Ctrl while scaling (Shift is used for scaling uniformly).

To set options for incremental snapping

Choose Transform Transform Preferences.
- For translation, objects and components jump by whole multiples of the Snap Increments - Translate value in Softimage units.
- For rotation, the angle jumps by increments of the Snap Increments - Rotate value in degrees.
- For scaling, the factor jumps by multiples of the Snap Increments - Scale value.