Newbie snapping to construction line question.

Please excuse my newbie ignorance, I've only done 5 classes of a 12 class
course and the exercises have been simple 2D engineering drawings so far.
The course has now reached the stage where we can introduce our own work
and I want to do a plan of a slab paved patio.
For practical purposes I may be barking up the wrong tree here but my
question is:
If I draw a grid of construction lines with a lineweight that represents
the width of the mortar joints between the slabs, can I then snap to the
outer edges of the intersections of these grid lines to draw the
intervening slabs, rather than snapping to the center of the gridlines?

Regards,

 

HiHo;
YES.
Look a the "osnap settings"

 

On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 14:29:17 +0100, Arty Flinders

Thanks guys. Using what you've written, I'll be able to solve the problem
now.
Regards,

 

or

you could hatch the area with a user hatch patern of the right size for
your slabs.

Terry

 

If it's an orthogonal shape, I'd draw a paver as a POLYLINE and use the
ARRAY command. If there a million of them, I'd make the paver a BLOCK, made
of a POLYLINE. I'd explode the ones needing trimming, and trim them to an
edge.
If they are not orthogonal, I'd draw them, arrange a tiling cluster, and use
COPY>MULTIPLE.

I remember Hatch being pretty frustrating at first. Now I do custom hatches
all the time because they are easy to revise, but I wouldn't recommend it
for a beginner worried about joint widths.....
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MichaelB
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