Gmax snaps quit working?

[OleBoy]

For a few sessions now I've been trying to find out what happened. All of a sudden the snaps quit working. I've went through all the snap settings and anything I try does not help.
I found a topic over at fsdeveloper, http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=92314 and figured that would solve my issue. No such luck.

Has anyone else dealt with this issue that knows how to fix it?

 

[Tako_Kichi]

Are you sure that you actually have snaps turned on? Look down at the bottom of the screen on the right side and make sure the icon showing the magnet and the number 3 is depressed.

 

[OleBoy]

Are you sure that you actually have snaps turned on? Look down at the bottom of the screen on the right side and make sure the icon showing the magnet and the number 3 is depressed.

Turned on= Green with number 3

That's what I don't understand. I even went through and turned on Angle Snap, Percent Snap, Spinner Snap, and right-clicked the settings to activate different internal options for testing. That did nothing. Something changed somewhere. Did I unknowingly hit a key on the keyboard? (shrug) No idea. The Help Files are of no help for the situation either.

 

[hairyspin]

Sometimes I find the snaps don't work, but turning Snap on and off a few times generally gets it back again. However, go to Customize/Grid and Snap Settings... and make sure you have Vertex Snap or whichever in the Snaps tab actually ticked as well as a useful size in Snap Strength (Options tab) - I have 8 pixels here.

Angle snap - hugely useful tool - is turned on and off with A, not S.

 

[OleBoy]

Oh hey Tom.

I've went into the options (right-click) of the snaps so many times. Nothing I do changes anything. I've turned on/off that I'm surprised my mouse clicks still work.
I also went into the (click vertex/shift/right click) snaps sub menu. Everything (to me) is set appropriately going by the post over at FSdeveloper and the Gmax Help File. That's what's baffling.
I've activated every setting within the options I can while testing. There has to be a setting somewhere that's tied to something else. Constraints, rotation? Shrug

OT, Many times I've closed/opened Gmax and FS Tools does not load with it.

 

[OleBoy]

To re-awake a frustrating subject I thought to share more of what's been tried.
Several others over at FSdeveloper have also helped on the matter prior to this post. That topic can be read here. http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=426707


To the issue of snaps not working. Well, when I open the gmax model file the usual way by (Gmax is open and running) clicking File, then scrolling down to most recent, snaps refuse to work.
Another method by clicking File/Open, then browsing to the model file and opening, snaps refuse to work.

Now comes the odd part.

If I browse through windows explorer to the Gmax root directory, Gamepacks / FSX_GmaxGamePack / Scenes folder and then double click on the model file, the snaps work every time as they should.

I've no idea why, but they do.
I thought this bit of info to be useful for someone else down their road of learning.