Smart Guides and Snap To Grid mutually exclusive - please support both
"Smart Guides" and "Snap to Grid" are currently mutually exclusive which is very troublesome. I don't see the immediate connection, even if I want to have my objects snap to a grid I'd still liket to use Smart Guides, especially for creating Squares, Circles and the like.
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Beta build now offers a way to have these two work together. This is still WIP and the team really needs your feedback on how it works.
Please try it — Beta builds are available for your Creative Cloud Desktop app and can be installed together with general builds (the only problem would be default file association — OS can’t tell Beta form GA apart).
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Jorge Estigarribia commented
So, in the beta version is available, ok ok, I will try, and by the comments this works like this since the beginning. thanks for the answer.
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Jorge, as mentioned by both Kurt and Ton in comments, this is how Ai always behaved since the introduction of Smart Guides: enabling "Snap to Grid" disables Smart Guides, including its Object Highlighting.
There is a request to allow this to work together:
Smart Guides and Snap To Grid mutually exclusive - please support both — http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/32421028
And the Beta build actually tries this today! Please try it (you can install it from your CCD) and share your feedback — the team really needs more to make it work the best way. -
I found something I believe is a bug.
I have the latest version, and when the "Snap to Grid" option is enabled, paths do not highlight when hovered over with the Selection Tool. When "Snap to Grid" is disabled, the highlighting behavior returns to normal.
I'm on Windows 11 and latest Illustrator version.
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Rudi Spitzers
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I agree. If not possible, remove the check mark at 'Smart guides' when 'Snap to grid' is active. Very confusing and in my view an interface error.