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Is it possible to extend the Drawing Tools palette and add a grid snap feature? Drawing points with discrete intervals would make it a lot easier to draw nice free body diagrams, and other simple problem sets without needing to page out of Mathematica.

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Image 1: Typical situation where I page out of Mathematica to Illustrator. Grid snap makes it much easier and quicker than snapping to elements. Grid that I snap to is shown in the background.

New students are intimidated by learning yet another tool. And frankly I can and do write these in code as well, but students take time to learn to do so.

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  • $\begingroup$ Does the Drawing Tools need to be involved? Would be easier with just points and lines. $\endgroup$
    – Öskå
    Commented Sep 6, 2014 at 10:59
  • $\begingroup$ @Öskå Maybe, drawing tools would be pretty competent for this particular case if it had snap to grid, when not its a bit painful and useless tool. Idea that these are sketches before any calculation. Preference is NO code it scares the lower 2/3 of students away. $\endgroup$
    – joojaa
    Commented Sep 6, 2014 at 11:50
  • $\begingroup$ I'm afraid that the drawing tools can't be incorporated in a piece of code see here. Thus the easiest would be to create your own drawing tools with basic primitives like line/circle/point. The code would scare them, the GUI might not.. :) $\endgroup$
    – Öskå
    Commented Sep 6, 2014 at 11:52

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NOTE:

  1. This works on my Mathematica 10, but not tested on other versions.
  2. This method involving modification of a system file, thus is likely prohibited by the EULA.

First locate the notebook corresponding to the Drawing Tools, which should be on a path similar to the following:

(Mathematica root)\SystemFiles\FrontEnd\SystemResources\DrawingTools.nb

Looking for this string:

"NewGraphicButtonText"

There should be 2 matches, around whom it looks like this:

location of "NewGraphicButtonText"

Note the selected "" in the above snapshot, we are going to replace it with the following code:

( DON'T FORGET TO BACKUP THE ORIGINAL .NB FILE! )

   (* added by silvia v *)

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   (* added by silvia ^ *)

Save the file and reopen the Drawing Tools palette in Mathematica (press Ctrl + D), you should see a new button at the right side of the old "New Graphics" button:

new Drawing Tools palette

Press it (and don't forget to switch on the "Toggle Alignment Guides"), you should see a canvas with guide-grids:

canvas with guide grids

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  • $\begingroup$ I would still like foced quantize move instead of a shown grid that i can snap to its mentally faster $\endgroup$
    – joojaa
    Commented Oct 21, 2015 at 17:01
  • $\begingroup$ @joojaa Forcing a quantized move would be much harder if insist sticking with the built-in Drawing Tools, as a large part of its operating principle is unknown to the end users, which makes any further hacking very hard, if not impossible. $\endgroup$
    – Silvia
    Commented Oct 21, 2015 at 17:06
  • $\begingroup$ I dont dispute that. Im still saying this is not perfect even if its VERY useful. TY $\endgroup$
    – joojaa
    Commented Oct 21, 2015 at 17:13
  • $\begingroup$ @joojaa You're welcome! And maybe someone else will come up with a better solution. Don't feel hesitated to change the acceptance! $\endgroup$
    – Silvia
    Commented Oct 21, 2015 at 17:39

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