1 Reply Latest reply: Jul 31, 2014 7:28 AM by KrisHunt RSS

    Live rectangles snapping to random points. Anyone care to explain?

    sigtm Community Member

      I've read through the few other threads about snapping problems in CC 2014, and the only thing I'm seeing from Adobe staff is "Live rectangles can't snap because they would break". Can someone explain why snapping to grids is so impossible accomplish with live rectangles? And if it is, why do they snap to anything at all?

       

      As an example, this is what happens on my end (nothing to do with pixel grid whatsoever, just normal grid):

       

      1. Create live rectangle, and it snaps to the grid (in my case, 16px grid with no subdivisions). Fantastic.
      2. Grab the bounding box, start scaling. While scaling it now snaps to intervals that roughly correspond with the grid, but isn't the grid.
      3. After scaling, it is now off by several pixels – I tried to scale it to 80px (exactly 5 blocks of my 16px grid), but it snapped to 77.074 px. This is not your usual .002 px issue or whatever, it is off by nearly 3 whole pixels.

       

      So it is snapping as I scale it, but it's not snapping to my grid – just some arbitrary points. This does not happen if I expand the object to a "normal" rectangle.

       

      Why? If live rectangles can't be snapped without breaking them, why did my rectangle then snap to 77.074 px? What good is that to anyone?