Snaps are custom points you can add to grouped geometry. When you add a Snap you can use your new custom point to position and orient objects. Snaps can also help you create modular components in your model that are easy to, well, snap into place. The option to add Snaps appears in the context menu after selecting a face in either Edit Component or Edit Group mode.
To create a professional document, entities need to be arranged and sized just right. LayOut offers several tools to help you manipulate the entities in your document with precision.Using a GridLayOut documents include a grid that you can toggle on or off to help you align entities on a page. To see the grid, select View > Show Grid. When the grid is displayed, select View > Hide Grid to make it disappear. You can also context-click a blank space in the drawing area to select these options from the context menu.
LayOut's Linear Dimension () and Angular Dimension () tools can label a distance or angle. In the following figure, you see an example of a linear and an angular dimension.
With LayOut's Label tool (), you create a label entity with a text box, a line (technically called a leader), and an arrow or endpoint pointing to a specific item in the drawing area. The following figure illustrates a few ways you can customize labels: