3Ds max 2017 Snaps misbehaving?

Zubnero

Hey all, 

Ever since upgrading to 3Ds max 2017 I am having trouble getting the snaps to work correctly, especially the vertex snaps, Usually I snap the pivot to vertices a lot but when I try to do this in 3ds max 2017 it is sometimes impossible to snap within the same object, for example :  when I try to snap the pivot of object A  according to a vertex of object B it seems to be working fine, but when I want to snap the pivot of object A to a vertex of object A the snaps are not working

Any of you encountered a similar problem or is it just me?, hope someone can help , thanks in advance.

musashidan

My answer. ....wait for SP1

huffer

SP1 is out! How ever no mention of this fix.

Zubnero

musashidan said:

My answer. ....wait for SP1

Hehe, yeah that's my intuition as well but sometime when new updates come out they change shortcuts, or how it works slightly, and I end up being totally lost haha.

huffer said:

SP1 is out! How ever no mention of this fix.

I will download it anyways, maybe it fixes it haha, thanks for linking this in.

musashidan

huffer said:

SP1 is out! How ever no mention of this fix.

My answer.....wait 5 years....

But seriously. I only used Max 2017 during beta-testing and pivot-vert snaps worked perfectly. It must have broken since. I'm still beta-testing future releases but have still to install the latest. Sorry if this isn't very helpful but I can't say much more than that.

My advice is to log the bug and report it.

Zubnero

Made a .GIF of the issue , maybe I am overlooking something?

@Musashidan I will report it with the.GIF aswell

monster

Looks like you can't snap a pivot to itself. You can only snap it to another object. That's weird. I'll report that as a bug in the beta.

A workaround is to snap the working pivot to a vertex, then switch to Affect Pivot Only and zero out the position. This should line it up to the working pivot.

monster

Also, you can convert to Editable Mesh then back when you are done.

Zubnero

monster said:

Looks like you can't snap a pivot to itself. You can only snap it to another object. That's weird. I'll report that as a bug in the beta.

A workaround is to snap the working pivot to a vertex, then switch to Affect Pivot Only and zero out the position. This should line it up to the working pivot.

Oh yeah that would work aswell, sometimes what I do is I make a quick proxy mesh snapped to the originals mesh vertices, and use the proxy mesh to snap my pivot to, It just doesn't snap to it's self with any given tool, for example snapping the slice plane of the slice modifier also doesn't work.

NAIMA

U have the dame issue bit I thought was normale FIR 3dsmax ad I didn' try that on earlier releases , glad to know might ne a bug .

NAIMA

I used instead pointhelpers.

spacefrog

roflsoldier said:

And yes SP1 did not fix this at all. It's like they changed how the working pivot and the object pivot function. Very annoying.

SP2 has been released some days ago and should fix the snapping issues

Zubnero

spacefrog said:

roflsoldier said:

And yes SP1 did not fix this at all. It's like they changed how the working pivot and the object pivot function. Very annoying.

SP2 has been released some days ago and should fix the snapping issues

Cheers, thanks for notifying

brokenpoly

SP2 didn`t fix anything I`m afraid. Damn. This max version is the worst one in ages

gguru

i found solution for this: just enable select and place tool and snaps vertex together.Work great

RogueHydra

Just because I keep seeing this question popping up (and I myself always forget it when I ever need to reinstall MAX and haven't done any 3D work in a while):  Go to->  Customize=>Preferences=>Gizmos tab.  At the bottom, change it from Projection to Intersection.  This turns out to be exactly what was causing that same problem for me each time I've had to reinstall in the past but for some reason this answer never seems to stick in my head and I end up digging around the net for the fix.