Snap to point still works even when it's OFF
I have 'Snap to point' turned off in AI22.
But when I draw using Pen tool, it still snaps to point.
AdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
shared this idea
It happens because of the 'Highlight anchors on mouse over' option in Preferences > Selection & Anchor Display. It acts as a Secret Snapping Option, and I don’t like it.
-
Anonymous
commented
I turned off all snap functions, but when using the Pen tool, snap to points still happens. How i can turned off this function?
-
Although I know now why it happens — 'Highlight anchors on mouse over' in Selection & Anchor Display section of the Preferences — I still think that it is a problem. This function, being useful, overrides snapping in a way that acts like it.
-
g
commented
1. lock or hide all other shapes / layers. Pen Tool does not snap to locked shapes or points.
2. when the Pen Tool wants to snap to the current shape (line) which must be unlocked obviously, hold the SHIFT key. This will allow you to place a point right next to the line without snapping to it.
It will still snap to current shape's points, no fix that I'm aware of.
-
Paul Mackinnon commented
Me too finding it frustrating.
In selection and anchor display preferences I have maxed the tolerance to 8 due to Illustrator's annoying intolerance when deleting anchor points.
However, the closest to solving the snap to point problem is to minimise that tolerance to 1 - that makes it much harder to hit another anchor point
So my suggestion to adobe would be to offer a universal snap override hot key. So no matter what the user will have complete freedom in placing an anchor point with the override
This snapping to point is probably a 'feature' in that when closing a path you need it. But it bugs me that it snaps even to another compound path anchor point. Not something that I require in general.