Adobe Community: is it me, or is illustrators snap system a little buggy?

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1. Mylenium,

Aug 15, 2012 10:17 AM in reply to Pacoan

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Yes, it's been forever this way, but I see no rational reason why it should behave differently. It would be even more confusing, if multiple point selection jsut zapped together and snapped al lto the same point.

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2. Pacoan,

Aug 15, 2012 10:37 AM in reply to Mylenium

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Do you use other programs?

Let's say I am making a calendar, or some other grid like shape. And I have set of lines. I would like to duplicate the horizntal lines that I have aligned with the grid. After duplicating the lines, I rotate them 90degrees and move them over, hoping that they will snap to the grid. Well they don't, because I have several lines selected at once.'

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3. Mike Gondek,

Aug 15, 2012 10:59 AM in reply to Pacoan

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If you have several lines selected, your lines will snap to the grid using the line you clicked on last to snap, as long as you have view >> snap to grid enabled. If after you drop the lines you want each of them to snap individually to the grid you cannot do that, and most people would not want that.

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4. emil emil,

Aug 15, 2012 2:13 PM in reply to Pacoan

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Pacoan wrote:

is it true that you cannot snap multiple points at once? as in, selecting 3 vertices on 3 separate paths, and moving them to a point on the grid? they don't snap

Multiple points snap in Illustrator but with the original space between points preserved. In some programs snapping and aligning vertically or horizontally can be done in one step. For example moving several selected points on different horizontal or vertical level by dragging on of them can snap the point being dragged and and also align the rest of the selected points to it horizontally or vertically. If this is what you want in Illustrator it has to be done in two steps first align horizontally or vertically all selected points and then drag and snap one of them and the rest will go along with it.

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5. Pacoan,

Aug 15, 2012 2:16 PM in reply to emil emil

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right, this is what I am noticing.

What about when a point is like .00001 pixels away from the grid? It seems like the only way to get it to actually snap is to move it away from the point, to another point, and then back to the area you actually wanted it snapped to.

It's just so funny to me that it is more trouble to place a point on a grid, then to simply create a new straight line.

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6. Pacoan,

Aug 15, 2012 2:25 PM in reply to Pacoan

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Sorry this rant is probably not helpful. I am just used to using other tools that don't have this sort of behavior.

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7. emil emil,

Aug 15, 2012 2:36 PM in reply to Pacoan

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Yeah, that's annoying, they programmed it so that the point being dragged can snap to itself, so if the target is very close to the point the snapping can get the point itself than the target. Who on earth would want to snap the point being dragged to itself - there is undo for that.

Well that's the case with smart guides and snap to point, if snap to grid is on then snapping point to itself won't interfere

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8. Mathias17,

Aug 15, 2012 2:57 PM in reply to Pacoan

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I don't get along with Illy's snaps, either. You're not the only one. Using AutoCAD for a few years spoiled me. If Adobe would just steal AutoDesks snaps I'd be very happy. Both AutoCAD and 3D Studio Max have such great snapping.

Course, I'd rather they fix the performance slogs first . . .

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9. Pacoan,

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is it me, or is illustrators snap system a little buggy?

Aug 15, 2012 10:02 AM

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