Snapping for beginners

[Mvdarbs]

Hi Folks, 

 

Symmetry question.

 

I don't quite get use snapping tool/guide. I find it hit and miss, probably because I am not using it property I suspect. Some times I get the nice green lines showing that I have lined up one of my shapes nicely with another and yet other times I get nothing?? Any ideas what I am doing wrong with this?

 

Short on info there I know but If you need more let me know.

 

Cheers

Mark

[R C-R]

A good place to start is by viewing some of the In-house Affinity Designer Video Tutorials -- section 12 "Design Aids" has several that show how snapping works.

[Alfred]

I'm struggling to get snapping to work correctly for me in the attached project. In the Snapping options I have 'Force pixel alignment' turned on and 'Move by whole pixels' turned off, but I still can't get rid of all the gaps. What am I doing wrong? :unsure:

 

Geometric-marquetry-3.afdesign

[R C-R]

I'm struggling to get snapping to work correctly for me in the attached project. In the Snapping options I have 'Force pixel alignment' turned on and 'Move by whole pixels' turned off, but I still can't get rid of all the gaps. What am I doing wrong? :unsure:

Try turning off Force pixel alignment. The symbol shapes are not positioned on or sized to integer pixel values, so if you force them to align on pixel boundaries there will be gaps or overlaps.

[Alfred]

Try turning off Force pixel alignment. The symbol shapes are not positioned on or sized to integer pixel values, so if you force them to align on pixel boundaries there will be gaps or overlaps.

 

Thanks for the suggestion, but when I tried that I found the results were worse instead of better! :(

[R C-R]

Thanks for the suggestion, but when I tried that I found the results were worse instead of better! :(

Really? When I tried it I had no trouble aligning the symbols without any gaps.

[Alfred]

Thanks for your further input. Maybe I had turned off another option that I shouldn't have, but I was hardly getting any snapping at all. I guess I'll have to play with it some more.

[barrycosta]

OMG Alfred - THANK YOU!!!

This was bugging me so bad. I looked through preferences and could not find anything.

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!