Node tool: Snap to segment / line midpoint

[matt.baker]

It would be useful if when hovering over line segments, it would allow snapping to the midpoint of the segment.

[walt.farrell]

Have you tried enabling "Snap to object bounding boxes" and "Include object bounding box mid-points" in the Snapping Manager? If I understand what you're asking for I think that will provide it.

[matt.baker]

Thanks for the suggestion Walt.

It's more for an easy option to snap to midpoints for the example below with a line segment that's not necessarily midway between a the whole shape's bounding box.

 

Snapping candidates similar to the following would be amazing:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2019/ENU/AutoCAD-Core/files/GUID-50383F73-4F23-4F70-B4FC-52D5748D80AF-htm.html

Crosses the into the realms of CAD features.

 

[Bri-Toon]

So you mean the exact midpoint. I think that's a neat suggestion. If someone is making sprite work and create square tiles, then snapping nodes in the center would break it down into divisions.

[matt.baker]

12 hours ago, Bri-Toon said:

So you mean the exact midpoint.

It wouldn't be a midpoint if not exact

[JET_Affinity]

But why only the midpoint of a segment? What if I want to snap to thirds of a segment? Or divide a segment into fifths.

An Add Nodes Per Segment command would enable one to create snap candidates at any fractional increment along a segment.

JET

[matt.baker]

1 hour ago, JET_Affinity said:

An Add Nodes Per Segment command would enable one to create snap candidates at any fractional increment along a segment.

I agree, that would be even better!

A segment/divide operation that can be run on line segments or even whole paths.

[Bri-Toon]

I second on that.

[ronhoff]

I have spent hours unsuccessfully trying to get it to snap to a midpoint of a line... and yes I am used to AutoCad where this is a given.

Do we really have to look up the length of the line and calculate the midpoint?!

[John Martineau]

Me too. 
Really need these basic CAD features to make this software useful to us here.
 

[MarioSpeedwagon]

Came here to see if there was a way or a work around. I will be patient.

 

Would be so so useful when drawing geometric designs.

[midvok]

So, is there any good workaround for this?

I have only found to use the Align tool... insert a new node anywhere on the segment, select the node plus the 2 neighbor nodes, go to Align tool and select both Space horizontally and vertically. Then the new node should get aligned to the midpoint of the segment. Good thing is that it also works when you want to equally distribute multiple points on the segment.

[dominik]

13 hours ago, midvok said:

I have only found to use the Align tool... insert a new node anywhere on the segment, select the node plus the 2 neighbor nodes, go to Align tool and select both Space horizontally and vertically. Then the new node should get aligned to the midpoint of the segment. 

I think this is a pretty good workaround already. Not as fast as a simple snap to midpoint but doable.

Thanks for posting this.
d.