Visio 2007: how to disable "snap"

[LL Visio]

MS Visio 2007

Problem: I have created a new, blank drawing in Visio 2007. I then draged
out two separate wals from the "Walls, Dooors and Windows" shapes toolbar
onto the blank drawing. I then sized each wall to the required length. When
I slowly move one wall close to the other wall (using the keyboard arrow
keys) the two walls "snap" together, resulting in a small change in length of
the walls.

I have gone to Toolls-> Snap & Glue, and unchecked the snap and Glueboxes,
but this does not seem to disable the aotomatic "snap" function.

My question is: How can I slowly move the ends of these two walls together,
at 90 degreees to each other, by using the arrow keys, without having the
"snap" effect change the preset length of the walls as the ends of the walls
"jump" together?

 

[Chris Roth [Visio MVP]]

Hi LL,

I think that the walls aren't supposed to change length. I couldn't find
any settings to turn off all the "jumping", but I've found an
easy-to-do, fairly-harmless hack that might help.

1. Next to the wall that you're moving just draw a throw-away rectangle
2. Select the wall and the rectangle
3. Press Ctrl+G to group them together

Now you can inch your wall closer and closer without the auto-jumping.

When your wall is in position, you can ungroup the unit (Ctrl+U) and the
wall shouldn't jump. You can now easily delete the rectangle.


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Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP


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[WapperDude]

The walls will indeed change length, designed to do so. Visio will either
add or subtract the wall width with the length. It all depends upon how you
orient the walls when you drag and drop. If your measurements are for the
interior of the room, then, the line with the connector ends needs to be on
the interior side of your placement. Your next wall, at right angle, should
also have the connector line on the interior. Visio will fill in the corner.
All exterior sizes will be larger. Similarly, if your measurements are for
exterior dimensions, then, the connector line must be toward the outside of
your placement. Visio tries to be intelligent about this. If you mix and
match, as it were, an interior line with an exterior line, you will get odd
sizes, and generally, not what you want.

Hope this makes sense.

Wapperdude