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Designer V2 is not snapping points in relation to another


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Hello

I am not able to have the same snapping functionality in V2 as I am used to from V1. I tried various settings, but it still do not work as I need it to.
I am making shapes to fit my bikes when plotted out from protective film. I do this mainly by starting from an rectangle, fleshing out the form by adding points and moving these so that they fit my measurements. Now I need those points to snap on simple axis-positions that other points from the same shape are located. But V2 doesn't do it. I tried to show the problem in the following screenshot. The point on the bottom left should snap at the vertical position of the bottom right point, so on the horizontal line grey line I drew in there.

 

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Many thanks, that did it.
Just one little icon changes so much for me. But why none of the options under the magneting snapping toggle is doing the trick is beyond me.
On a sidenote I am using the german version, there it doesn't say "snap" in front of the icon, but "Ausrichten", which is not really a perfectly fitting translation.
But I am really grateful for your quick and perfect solution. Thanks again.
 

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4 hours ago, toreador said:

But why none of the options under the magneting snapping toggle is doing the trick is beyond me.

I think it is because those snapping options apply to entire objects, not the individual nodes of shape objects, but that is just a guess.

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4 hours ago, toreador said:

But why none of the options under the magneting snapping toggle is doing the trick is beyond me.

Because the global snapping options are for object manipulations and their tools,

https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/pages/DesignAids/snapping.html

whereas these options are specific to curves and the Node Tool.

https://affinity.help/designer2/English.lproj/pages/DesignAids/curveSnapping.html

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