change default to classic snapping

Question

ArcGIS 10
Win XP SP 3

Is there a way, perhaps in the registry, to make "classic snapping" the default?

Every time I start an ArcMap session I have to go in and click Editor>Options>Use classic snapping, and of course often I forget to set it up until I'm in the middle of editing a feature.   I know it's a small thing but it's getting old.

JohnSobetzer · Answer

I think it is working for me too, Joe, I just found it interesting that the registry entry doesn't affect the normal.mxd setting, and further that the normal.mxd can in effect switch off the registry setting for an ArcMap session, i.e. for all the maps that I open in ArcMap until I close it.  I think I actually kind of like that; it gives me some options.

JoeBorgione · Answer

John- I made the (reg)edit and it seems to be working as promised on my NT machine....

JohnSobetzer · Answer

I've tested this on my computers and got some interesting results.  On my secondary XP computer the registry setting did work if I chose to create a new map based on the �??blank�?� map of �??My templates�?� , or if I opened previously created map projects.  They opened with the classic snapping setting checked.

But if I instead opened a new map based on my normal.mxd (which does not have the box checked), they opened with the snapping setting unchecked, and any map I opened after it in that ongoing ArcMap session had the setting unchecked.

On my Windows 7/main computer, I had saved my normal.mxd with the classic snapping box checked and I don�??t yet have the registry tweak in place.  Any new project based on the normal.mxd or any previously created project that I opened thereafter in a continuing ArcMap session had the setting checked.  But if I started a new ArcMap session then maps based on the �??blank�?� template or previously created maps opened with the setting unchecked.