Enable Radius Snap
You’ve seen it, you’ve passed it by because you weren’t sure what it meant:
It’s found in your Alignment Styles; I’d say it’s buried, but it’s right under your nose.
From Help: Enable radius snap specifies whether the cursor snaps to the specified increment when grip editing the radius of a free curve.
Which in English (and Imperial units) means – if you set the Radius snap value to 5, when you grip edit a curve, the radius will increase or decrease 5′ at a time.
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The only thing to watch for with snap radius is that it builds from zero. So if your existing curve was set to say 165 and your snap radius set to 10, the first snap distances would be 160 or 170, then in increments of 10. Just something to watch for.
Nick
Exactly. From “Help:” The snap value is based on zero. For example, if the current radius is 150.5 and the radius snap value is 10, when you grip edit the alignment to the next highest radius the radius value is 160, not 160.5.