Requesting better knife tool handling with guides

[Aurea Ratio]

I have started to use the knife tool more and more on objects that I arrange following a precise guide pattern, and I trim the objects with the knife after the guides. Therefore, I use keyboard shortcuts to make straight cuts. It's probably not the first time in human history that someone has cut along a drawn line. 😊

Unfortunately, in terms of user-friendliness, it's not very easy to hit the guide precisely, it's hard to see when/if I hit it, and whether I follow the guide. I zoom in and out a lot and often miss.

I think, when snapping is enabled, you should add some snapping between the knife and guides at least, some kind of assisted mode where it's nearly impossible not to start on the guide and follow it, so you cut precisely.

Instead, I use boolean operators for precision when I can, and that's a pity. 😞

[retrograde]

Sort of related as it pertains to guides and the knife would be the ability to cut a guide or to turn any path into a guide.

[Maxdanger]

On 2/12/2024 at 11:40 PM, Aurea Ratio said:

I think, when snapping is enabled, you should add some snapping between the knife and guides at least, some kind of assisted mode where it's nearly impossible not to start on the guide and follow it, so you cut precisely.

 

Yes, I also find this and feel there’s unrealised potential in the tool. If the knife tool had the same snapping behaviour as the pen tool it would be much more powerful for precision drawing. It’s great as it is for non-precision art, but it could be so much better!
 

[Aurea Ratio]

On 2/20/2024 at 9:42 PM, Maxdanger said:

Yes, I also find this and feel there’s unrealised potential in the tool. If the knife tool had the same snapping behaviour as the pen tool it would be much more powerful for precision drawing. It’s great as it is for non-precision art, but it could be so much better!

Exactly, yes!