Locking onto a point

I'm fairly new to Draftsight after using AutoCAD for about 6 years. I have ran into a problem where I cannot get the curser to lock on to a particular point when trying to snap a coordinate for measurement. This isn't true for every drawing, but at least half or more I cannot snap in. Can anyone help with this issue. I'm sure it's a simple setting, but I cannot figure out which one... I'm using the 2017 SP2 version on a 64 bit system. Thank you.