About Adding Filters to Object Snaps (AutoCAD Mechanical Toolset)

To have Power Snaps ignore an entity, add the entity to the Power Snap filter list.

The default settings for Power Snaps include the following filter list:

Attention: Do not remove these filters

You can configure object snaps to ignore entities in a selected section of the drawing. For example, you can set an additional filter condition and have object snaps ignore lines within a selected block.

Example of Setting Filters In Drawing Blocks

If you want object snaps to ignore all lines and text strings contained in a specific block on your drawing. set the corresponding filter for object snaps:

  1. In the Power Snap Settings dialog box, click Filter.
  2. In the Entity Filter dialog box, click New.
  3. In the respective text boxes in the New Entity Filter dialog box, enter the following:
    • Filter Name: Example_1
    • Container Types: INSERT
    • Type of entity: LINE,TEXT
    • Layer: *
    • Line Types: *
    • Color: *

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