Can't snap to geometry. My bad?

[rui_mac]

I still don't want to qualify this as a potential bug.
But when I turn on snapping and turn on the snapping to geometry, while dragging nodes with the Node tool, they don't snap to other curves?

Am I doing something wrong? Am I missing something?

[MattP]

Are you able to snap to cusp (corner) nodes of other objects?

[Ben]

As I mentioned in another post - this is Phase 1 of snap to geometry.

 

You can snap to cusp points and end of curves for any curve object in your snapping candidate list.  This currently excludes smoothed points (probably incorrectly, but with reason).

 

The next phase will include snap point to anywhere on a path/curve.  This will include snap to smoothed points.  I just rationalised that you cannot tell where a smooth point is, so snapping to them would be hit and miss until you are able to snap to anywhere on a curve.

[rui_mac]

Oh, ok.
I was testing out the snapping to geometry because I read this in the beta release post:

 

- Snapping improvements - added presets, snap to geometry, text snapping and off-curve point smart snapping.

 

And yes, it does snaps to cups.

[Ben]

No problem.

 

Incidentally - have you tried the new off curve handle snapping?  I'm interested to see how people find it, because I have ideas for further additions when I get chance.

[rui_mac]

You mean the snapping in the direction of the next node, making it easier to create straight lines in-between curved nodes? If it is that, I like it a lot :-D

[Ben]

Yes - but it also snaps to tangent and right angles from the tangent of the previous curve.

[rui_mac]

Mmmmm, let me check that out... (I will keep this input dialog open... be right back ;-) )

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Yeah, it works just fine. I like it :-D

[MEB]

Thanks for the improvements Ben. Everything is working fine. I see you have tweaked the color coding too (now yellow for horizontal + vertical axis and purple for snapping over other nodes). Looking for phase two updates :)

[Ben]

Yes. The colour coding I find helpful. Red and green mixed is yellow, so that made sense. Something that will probably become more meaningful when we add custom axis is the notion of axis pairs at right angles - which is what we effectively have with the standard X and Y axis - as such axis allow for independent alignment, and so when something aligns in both axis it makes sense to mix to the yellow colour.

Purple was just another random colour I picked that is not red green or yellow. Purple will denote direct snaps that affect all axis, and indicate that no independent snapping on another axis is possible. As I enable more snap to curve features this will make more sense.