Snapping

Snapping pulls your cursor (or the endpoint of whatever you're drawing) to nearby features - wall endpoints, fixture corners, guides, dimension endpoints - so you don't have to be pixel-perfect. The Snapping section in Settings is where you control how aggressive that pull is, which features it targets, and which tools it applies to.

Snapping Tier

A dropdown with three options: Basic / Advanced / Expert.

This setting only controls how many options the Settings panel shows you. Picking Basic hides the advanced and expert controls; Expert shows everything. Snap behavior itself treats all enabled targets the same regardless of tier - tier is purely a UI simplification.

If you're new to VisionPlan, leave it on Basic. The Advanced tier unlocks per-target toggles and threshold sliders. Expert adds per-tool overrides, axis snap angles, and the snap loupe.

This matches the broader app philosophy: simple by default, advanced if you go looking.

Snap (master)

The top-level Snap toggle. ON / OFF.

When OFF, all snapping is disabled app-wide regardless of any other setting in this section. The cursor and drawing endpoints move freely with no pull.

Useful when you're placing something in an unusual spot that snap keeps fighting (a fixture deliberately off-grid, a wall at an odd angle, etc.). Flip it back on when you're done.

Snap Sensitivity

A slider from 0.5x to 2.0x, default 1.0x.

This multiplies the snap thresholds uniformly across all targets. Higher means the snap pulls in from farther away (more aggressive). Lower means you have to be closer for a snap to trigger (less aggressive).

Two ways to think about it:

• 1.5x - 2.0x: good on a touchscreen where finger precision is limited. Snap reaches out to grab the feature you're aiming at even if your finger is approximate.
• 0.5x - 0.8x: good for precision mouse work in dense plans where the default radius would catch the wrong target.

Per-target toggles (Advanced+)

The 11 built-in snap targets show in a list, each with its own on / off toggle:

• Measurement marks - the diamond marks dropped by the tape measure tool
• Tape dim endpoints - the start / end points of each placed dimension line
• Tape dim lines - anywhere along the body of a placed dimension line
• Horizontal guides - guides running left-to-right across the canvas
• Vertical guides - guides running top-to-bottom
• Pin guides - the single-point pin guides
• Wall endpoints - wall corners and join nodes
• Fixture corners - the four bounding-box corners of every cabinet, appliance, or furniture piece
• Fixture centers (tape measure only) - the center point of a fixture; the wall tool always ignores this regardless of the toggle
• Fixture edges - slide along the visible edge of a cabinet or appliance
• Wall lines - anywhere along the body of a wall (T-intersections)

Any installed plugin that registers its own snap target also appears in this list with a "plugin" badge.

Turn off any you don't want snap to consider. Common tuning: turn off fixture centers if the tape measure keeps grabbing a vanity center when you're trying to measure along its side.

Snap Distance fields (Advanced+)

Three numeric fields for fine-tuning thresholds in millimeters:

• Endpoint Snap Distance - default 80 mm
• Line Snap Distance - default 30 mm
• Guide Snap Distance - default 12 mm

Sensitivity (above) multiplies all three uniformly. These individual fields let you weight one category heavier than another. For example: bump Endpoint to 120mm but leave Line at 30mm if you want strong corner pulls without aggressive along-wall pulls.

Per-tool Snap Master (Expert)

Five separate toggles, one per tool:

• Wall tool
• Tape measure
• Segment dimension
• Leader (anchor click)
• Guide

Each one can disable snap for just that tool while leaving snap on for the others. Useful pattern: keep snap on for the Wall tool (you want clean wall draws) but turn it off for Leader (you want to place annotations exactly where you point, no pull).

Per-tool Wall Tool Overrides (Expert)

A target list specifically for the wall tool - lets you say "ignore these targets when I'm drawing walls" without affecting other tools. The master switch for the override is labelled Wall tool diverges from global - flip it on to expose the per-target list.

Common entries:

• Ignore fixture corners - useful if you're drawing walls around an existing kitchen layout and don't want the wall to keep grabbing onto cabinet edges.

Permanently blocked: fixture centers never snap during wall draws, regardless of this list. This is by design - you almost never want to start or end a wall at the center of a fixture, and accidentally doing so creates layout headaches.

Axis Snap Angles (Expert)

The list of angles the free wall draw snaps to. Defaults:

• 0
• 45
• 90
• 135

Add 30 and 60 if you draw triangular or hex layouts. The available extras are 30°, 60°, 120°, and 150° as filter chips. The tolerance (how close to the angle you have to be) is a separate slider, default 7 degrees (range 1° to 20°).

Snap Loupe (Expert)

A toggle (labelled Magnify near snap in the panel). When ON, a small magnifier callout floats just above (or below) your finger during a drag, showing a zoomed view of what's under the snap point. OFF by default - the cursor crosshair is usually enough.

Turn it on for finicky work in dense areas where you can't tell visually whether you've grabbed the endpoint or the line. The loupe makes the snap target unambiguous. Designed for touchscreen use; on a mouse the existing snap indicators are usually clear enough.

Related

• Settings overview
• Inferences and alignment guides
• Dimension snapping and hover
• How to draw a wall