Disable smart guides to some specific object/layer
Hi there,
After using Illustrator for quite some time, I found there has one function I need the most.
Which is to disable smart guides to some specific object/layer.
Smart guides are amazing but I found that they won't work well if I had a crazy vector texture background.
When I try to align to the main object I am working on, it will just try to align to background vector textures. Which is not ideal.
So I have been thinking, could there have a feature, that disables smart guides to some specific object/layer, like we can lock anything that we want?
Might be we could add a "disable smart alignment" option here?
Thanks
samuel wan
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I love this idea.
When working with a complex illustration, the usefulness of smart guides gets reduced to nil because of the sporadic seemingly random snapping to anything except for the point of focus, There is no proximity snapping in Illustrator it seems like (and there was a request about that, I guess...) — so yeah, we need to tame smart guides.Affinity Designer tries to solve this with its 'Snapping candidates':
https://affinity.help/designer/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/DesignAids/snapping.html?title=Snapping
Not an ideal solution, Ai should do better.In Illustrator, we have these two requests:
Smart Guides limited to current artboard
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/34993648Option for Smart guides to ignore objects outside isolation
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/38338372Combined with this one it can be a much better combo.
