Snap to Farside Surface ( Modeling )

Tool summary :

• Select a surface. This tool snaps directly to the far side of that surface if there is only one. For materials with multiple far sides, you can choose the far side you want to snap to.
• Snap to Farside outlines the nearest parallel, far-side surface, then the next nearest, and so on until you left-click ( Accept ) or have exhausted all the possibilities.
• The tool can be used in Modeling on any visible surface of a material whose associated member is displayed in a solid form .
• The surface this operation brings you to will be displayed in a brighter color. This highlighting serves as an indicator that the surface is the work plane of your view. This work plane is, for example, the plane on which holes will be added if you do an Add Holes operation.

• See the step-by-step instructions .

Also see :

• Adjacent/Farside Depth (option for Snap to Farside )
• Undo View Change (undoes Snap to Far Side )
• Snap to Surface (similar to Snap to Far Side )
• Snap to Adjacent Surface (similar to Snap to Farside )

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   Step-by-step instructions :

The following instructions assume that you are using a 3-button mouse and that you use mouse bindings similar to those shown in these illustrations. Also, performing this same operation in Surface Mode combines steps 1 and 2.

	1 . Invoke Snap to Farside Surface .
	2 . Place your mouse pointer ( ) on the surface that you want to go to the far side of, then left-click ( Locate ).
	3 . Left-click ( Accept ) if the surface outlined with a blinking, cyan border is the surface you want. Or middle-click ( Next ) if you want a different far-side surface.
	4 . Snap to Farside puts you on the far side of the surface that you accepted in step 3. Depth checking is adjusted per User and Site Options > Modeling > Snap to adjacent/farside .

Note 1: To invoke Snap to Farside Surface ...

Method 1 : Click the Snap to Farside Surface icon, which is pictured above. The icon can be taken from the group named ' Navigate -- Surface Mode ' and placed on a toolbar (classic) or the ribbon (lightning).

Method 2 : If " Modeling layout style " is ' Classic ', you can use the menu system to choose Navigate > Snap to Farside Surface .

Method 3, 4 or 5 : Snap to Farside Surface can also be configured to be invoked using a keyboard shortcut , the context menu , or a mode . For the lightning interface, this configuration is done using Customize Interface .

Method 6 : You can Snap to Farside from Surface Mode . First place the mouse pointer ( ) on the surface of the material you want to snap to, then middle-click ( Far Side ). In the above instructions, skip step 2 and go to step 3.

Note 2: Right-click ( Return ) in steps 2 or 3 ends the Snap to Farside operation.

Note 3: Middle-click ( Next ) in step 3 is for multiple parallel surfaces. For a tube , the program first takes you to the farthest parallel surface, then the next nearest parallel surface. If you middle-click ( Next ) after all possibilities have been shown, the program ends the operation.

Note 4: At this point you have not actually created a new view; you have simply relocated your current view. If you were to Open ( Ctrl + o ) your current view again, you would undo the changes made with this tool.

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