Snapping to strokes not working

[tomflendrig]

I want to snap to the outer side of the circle. This is a stroke from a curve. As you can see in the video the pen tool won't snap to the stroke. Even with all snapping settings on. Does anyone know how this comes? Or is this feature not implemented jet in Affinity Designer?

Thanks for answering,

Tom

[PixelPest]

That´s a normal behaviour afaik. If you want to snap to that path you can align the stroke to the inside or you take another parametric shape like a donut:

 

Cheers

[tomflendrig]

3 minutes ago, PixelPest said:

That´s a normal behaviour afaik. If you want to snap to that path you can align the stroke to the inside or you take another parametric shape like a donut:

 

Cheers

Thanks this helps a lot!

[R C-R]

2 hours ago, tomflendrig said:

As you can see in the video the pen tool won't snap to the stroke.

Actually, it is snapping to the stroke. It is just that the stroke is center-aligned on the curve, so it won't snap to the outer or inner extent of the stroke thickness.

[tomflendrig]

3 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Actually, it is snapping to the stroke. It is just that the stroke is center-aligned on the curve, so it won't snap to the outer or inner extent of the stroke thickness.

yeah so my question should probably be: How can I snap on to the outer or inner extent of the strokes thickness?

(but the solution PixelPest gave actually solves my problem so this tread can be assigned as solved)

[MEB]

Hi tomflendrig,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
There's no way to snap to the stroke outlines themselves. It's the path that's the reference. The only thing you can do (when possible/applicable) is to expand the stroke so it's converted to a path but this may be undesirable in most cases.

[R C-R]

17 minutes ago, MEB said:

The only thing you can do (when possible/applicable) is to expand the stroke so it's converted to a path but this may be undesirable in most cases.

A workaround for that is to duplicate the curve, expand the stroke on the duplicate, & snap to that. Disabling the "Only snap to visible objects" snapping option & making the duplicate invisible (& maybe locked) should allow snapping to the outer or inner edge without anything too undesirable from happening.

[MEB]

That's way too much work if you are dealing with various objects in daily use (besides all duplicates it creates) but yes you can do it.

[lepr]

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[R C-R]

4 hours ago, MEB said:

That's way too much work if you are dealing with various objects in daily use (besides all duplicates it creates) but yes you can do it.

Yes, it is a lot of extra work, but what alternative is there if a user wants to leave shapes with center-aligned strokes unchanged & still be able to snap the Pen Tool to the edges of the stroke?

Besides, the expanded stroke duplicates can be created temporarily for snapping & then deleted afterwards. It is just a workaround.

[SerpentEagle]

There really needs to be a feature for this... Maybe you could add an option in the snap options panel?