About Illustrator snap to object
It off, you are doing yourself a disservice, especially so in Illustrator CS4. Let me explain.Have you ever tried snapping an object to a guide or another object, thinking those objects were perfectly aligned? Only to zoom in really close and see that there's actually a gap? Of course you have. A common misconception about Illustrator is that you have to zoom in REALLY really close in order to make sure that object line up correctly, and that this is a cause of Illustrator not being accurate enough. In reality, it's due to the fact that the snapping behavior in Illustrator is calculated from the position of the CURSOR, not the object you're moving. That means if you click on a particular anchor point and move your object to snap to a guide, you might THINK that you're snapping the point to the guide, but you're really snapping the position of your cursor to the guide. In other words, if you don't click directly on the anchor point, your anchor point won't end up being aligned perfectly to the guide.That changes in Illustrator CS4 -- IF -- Smart Guides is turned on. When Smart Guides is on, Illustrator can snap the object bounds of objects to paths and guides (the way InDesign does). In other words, with Smart Guides on, your objects will snap, and you won't have to worry about exactly where you click to move an object from, and you won't need to zoom in really really really
Key features of the Illustrator snap to object that are enabled through these drivers include:
- Turn the snap to grid and snap to object options on or off
- illustrator Will. Not. Stop. snapping to pixels
- Snap to point - Adobe Illustrator
- SNAP TO POINT – Adobe Illustrator
- Merging objects/layers in Illustrator into a single Object
- Cursor skips over some object snaps and will not snap when
- Turn the snap to grid and snap to object options on or off in Excel
All Selected AG Block Shadows. AG OffsetAG Offset is a Live Effect from Astute Graphics that can create multiple offsets on both closed and open paths in Adobe Illustrator. In our example, we’ve used AG Offset to create a compound shape that’s true to the isometric perspective. For example, to create the lip of the mug we can use the AG offset tool to accurately create a copy inside our original shape. It can be any distance you want, and you can also use the panel to enter an exact value. This means there’s no guess work and you don’t have to confine yourself to the grid, or risk resizing the object and mishandling the proportions when scaled down. Snap to CollisionsSnapping objects in Adobe Illustrator can be extremely tricky and Smart Guides can be a help and a hindrance. The Snap to Collisions tool by Astute Graphics does exactly that. You can move and duplicate objects, and the tool will snap to existing objects. The tool also highlights the point at which it’s snapping, giving you higher control over moving objects. There is no need for eyeball alignment in your work. Get greater precision and work smarter not harder with the Astute Graphics tool suite. Tangent Line ToolThe Tangent Line tool is part of the Astute Graphics suite for Adobe Illustrator that creates straight paths that are tangent to one or two existing paths. Being able to draw out and snap to another object in Illustrator is not possible
