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Toggles Geometric Center Entity snap; snaps to the centroid of a closed polyline, spline, planar 3D polyline, regions, or planar face of a 3D solid.

Accessing the Command

command bar: gcenter
transparent: gce
ribbon: Home | Entity Snaps | Snap to Geometric Center
toolbar: Entity Snaps |

: Gcenter

Displays no prompts in the command bar; as you move the cursor over a closed entity, displays a blipmark (+) at the geometric center icon.

Option

Description

Gcenter

Entering the command toggles Geometric Center entity snap.

When on, it snaps to the centroid of a closed entity or and planar face of a 3D solid.

This command can be entered transparently during commands, but must be entered without the apostrophe prefix ( ' ).

OSnap - toggles entity snap modes in the Settings dialog box.

-OSnap - toggles entity snap modes in the command bar.

Aperture - sizes the aperture cursor for entity snaps.

2dIntersection - toggles apparent intersection snap mode.

3dIntersection - toggles intersection snap mode.

Apparent - toggles apparent intersection snap mode.

Center - toggles center snap mode.

Endpoint - toggles endpoint snap mode.

Extension - toggles extension snap mode.

From - allows to enter relative coordinates with respect to a reference point.

Insertion - toggles insertion snap mode.

Intersection - toggles intersection snap mode.

Midpoint - toggles midpoint snap mode.

Mtp - allows to specify a point as the midpoint between two points.

Nearest - toggles nearest snap mode.

Node - toggles node (point) snap mode.

None - turns off all entity snap modes.

Parallel - toggles parallel snap mode.

Perpendicular - toggles perpendicular snap mode.

Quadrant - toggles quadrant snap mode.

Tangent - toggles tangent snap mode.