Please work on the snappins part a bit

[chris.bannu]

Hey guys,

Snapping is either very difficult to use and I gon't really get it, or it's not the best, either way, for me personally is a bit useless. I almost never get the snapping right. Maybe spend a bit more time on that for the upcoming version, that would be great.

Cheers,

Chris

[walt.farrell]

Can you give them any more information, or some specific examples?

A report of "something's not working like I'd like it to, please improve it" is probably too vague for the developers to work with.

[Alfred]

Many snapping performance improvements are coming in version 1.7.

[MEB]

Hi chris.bannu,

As walt.farrell mentioned it would help if you said where are you having trouble. We are aware of a couple issues with pixel aligned elements but apart from those all the rest should work correctly. It's also a great time to leave some feedback in the thread Alfred mentioned if you feel there's something missing.

[chris.bannu]

1. Sometimes snapping to a certain object does happen, other times, snapping to the the same object, with the same snapping settings, don't take into consideration that object. Thta usually happens with small objects (like a rectangle 1 px wide for example)

2. Sometimes there's a very small gap between two objects that should have 0 pixels spacing between them, when using snapping. Instead, there's a [0,something gap], it's not a rounded zero. I have to delete some decimals to get the value right.

 

Cheers  

[MEB]

Hi chris.bannu,

1. Check if you have the Candidates dropdown set to Candidates List. If so the program will only snap to a maximum of 6 objects by default (you can increase this value in the Maximum dropdown right below the Candidates dropdown). Basically each time you select or mouse over an object for a few seconds that object is added to the Candidates list and considered for the next snapping operations - all the others are ignored. The oldest one from the list is removed every time you add a new one. Check this video tutorial for more info about them: Snapping: Candidates

2. Enable Force Pixel Alignment to force transforms and movements to whole/integer values. Disable Move By Whole Pixels to prevent objects from keeping the decimal places when you move/transform them.