Its a snap to draw lines

Markers are temporary and can be used to help you draw lines or just orientate yourself.  Markers can also be labelled and saved as layer.

In the following we are going to draw some roads to connect the markers, before deleting the markers.

We are going to make roads first:

  1. Select the draw lines tool or simply CTRL+L
  2. First of all select Edit > Live Layer Options > Snap to options > Snap to Live Layer
  3. Then Edit > Live Layer Options > Snap to options > Vertices or lines on click

Now we are ready to draw.  The lines you draw should snap to any lines you’ve just drawn, within 10pixels.

  1. Simply create a network of roads that connect the turbines.  It should look like the image, but don’t worry if you make mistakes, the idea is that we’ll correct these next.
  2. During line creation remember backspace to correct the last vertex and ESC to cancel the lot.
  3. Finally select an end point and then right click elsewhere to finish the line.
  4. Select the road style for now.

Zoom in and out if you want to, see that the snapping works.  If there are spaces between your lines the snapping options were probably turned off!  Or if the snapping hasn’t worked so well, make sure that you don’t create competing vertices where lines are to join up.

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