How to turn snaps on and off in sketcher?

[wilmath]

I am using Wildfire4 student edition.There are times when I want to draw something freehand but the snaps pull the line to a possible constraint or line or reference. Is there a way to temporarily turn off all the snaps so I can place the vertex of whatever I am drawing where I want it?

Thanks
Rick

 

[dr_gallup]

Are you using a sketcher grid? You can turn that off in sketch\options. You can also turn off snap to grid in tools\environment. I never use a grid or any snapping so I'm not sure how those work exactly. I only snap to references that I have set up before I sketch. Also remember that it's not necessary or even desirable to exactly sketch what you want. Sketch things exaggerated and then use the dimensioning scheme to make it precise.

 

[neomechanikos]

Holding down the Shift key while making entities disables constraints and snaps within sketcher.