Snap & Glue

[DCHT]

I have Visio Professional 2002 SR-1, I have turned off snap & glue while I am
laying out the walls of my house, but whenever I get too close with a wall to
another wall, the one wall snaps to the other wall. Why? Please help.

 

[Chris Roth [ Visio MVP ]]

There is an add-on, which is a program built on top of Visio, which runs the
whole Wall Healing Operation. Normally, users shouldn't care about this, but
in your case, well, you're up against a wall.

Since the WHO is separate code, the programmers evidently forgot to check
Visio's snap and glue settings, and are assuming you always want the walls
to close up, nice and tidy.

I found a HACK that kind of works:

- Draw your walls, keeping them a sufficient distance apart.

- Use the arrow keys to move them closer together.
At some point, the non-moving wall will jump onto your moving wall.

- Hit Ctrl+Z when the wall jumps.
This will undo the "Wall Healing", but won't move your wall backwards.

- Inch a bit closer with the arrow keys.
Hit Ctrl+Z every time the stationary wall jumps to meet your moving wall.

Ugly, I know....

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Hope this helps,

Chris Roth
Visio MVP

 

[DCHT]

Chris, thanks for the quick response.
Is this a problem in Visio 2003? If this problem is not there in that
release, I would consider upgrading.

 

[David]

Yes, this is a problem with Visio 2003. A very annoying feature! One should
be able to disable it or over-ride it some way. Chris's hack is not really a
solution. Where I have the problem is joining walls that intersect at a 45
degree angle; like a bay window. The hack does not produce the effect.

Visio is handy for building plans but this healing feature sucks.

David