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AAN
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Highlight points

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Hi.

I am learning FreeCAD and I have some problems with point selection. I have seen in some videos that when you want to draw a line between two points, when you hover over a line, FreeCAD automatically highlights the selected points, for example midpoint, and presents them as a solid circle. I imagine that for FreeCAD to do this it is necessary to indicate it in the preferences, but I cannot find it. I have already looked at many tutorials and I have searched this forum, but I cannot find the answer. Can someone help me?

Thanks. Regards.
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Hi and welcome to the forum!

Are you talking about Draft workbench? Then have a look at Draft Snap.
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Hi.

Thanks for your wellcome.

Exactly, I'm talking about Draft workbench. Unfortunately, the page you indicate is not my doubt. I had already visited it and it doesn't indicate anything about what I want to get. What I want to appear is what you see in the following image:

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In the video FreeCAD automatically detected the midpoint of the line and placed a white solid circle at that point. I don't get FreeCAD to do this. I think it must be something of the program configuration, but I can't find it. Where is it?

Thanks. Regards.
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Hi
Just under your nose , in the "Snap tools bar , you have to verify if the adhequat button is greis or blue , if greis clik on it became bleue
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Hi.

I know that I have to activate the type of point I want to select (endpoint, midpoint, intersection, ...) in the Snap tools bar, but that isn't then problem. Although the button is activated, I cannot do what I have said in the previous messages.

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I don't use that very often , but I can verify now when all the bar is active nothing work maybe to many , unselect the majority and save only one or two , at home it's work like that
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AAN wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2020 10:27 am ... Can someone help me?
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papyblaise wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2020 4:11 pm I don't use that very often , but I can verify now when all the bar is active nothing work maybe to many , unselect the majority and save only one or two , at home it's work like that
Hi.

The problem is the same with the entire bar activated or with a single activated type.

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vocx wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2020 5:00 pm
AAN wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2020 10:27 am ... Can someone help me?
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OS: Windows 10
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.18.4 (GitTag)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-18
Hash: 980bf9060e28555fecd9e3462f68ca74007b70f8
Python version: 3.6.6
Qt version: 5.6.2
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
Locale: Spanish/Spain (es_ES)

Is it enouhg?

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