Free Plain Rectangle Tool

Adobe®, in its AI CC2014 version, has introduced a new tool called the Live Rectangle. This is a really great feature but has its huuuuge limitation: it doesn’t snap to grids, points and objects correctly on resize!
Since we don’t know whether adobe is going to fix this and since there is no option to replace the Live Rectangle with the classic one (plain) by default, I’ve decided to write my own plugin (available for free for personal and commercial use) which imitates behavior of the ‘old’ Rectangle Tool. It doesn’t replace the Live Rectangle – it works completely independent!
My Plain Rectangle Tool correctly snaps to grids/objects/points and correctly aligns to grid/points on resize. Of course it supports the SHIFT and ALT/OPTION keys, Snap to Grid and Smart Guides options. In other words it works almost 100% the same as the Rectangle Tool we know from CC (17.1), CS6 and earlier.
The installation package (zxp) adds ‘Plain Rectangle Tool’ icon into the Ai panel (of curse you can assign your custom keyboard shortcut to it as well)
Note: The Plain Rectangle can be easily converted into the Live one using Object > Shape > Convert to Rectangle
Grab your copy at http://63mutants.com/subc/products/PlainRectangleTool_m01/PlainRectangleTool_m01.php and share it with your friends.
It’s completely free.
Regards,
Pawel Kuc

The new version of Plain Rectangle Tool is available now.
http://63mutants.com/subc/products/PlainRectangleTool_m01/PlainRectangleTool_m01.php
Release notes:
Some users (Windows) have experienced the “missing MSVCP120D.dll” error during Ai startup. This has been fixed.
Now, creating a square or rectangle shape using values is supported. Click where you want the top-left corner or center (holding the ALT key) to be. Specify a width (single value) for square shape or a width and height (two values separated with ‘ ‘ (single space character), ‘/’ or ‘*’ for a rectangle, and click OK. For example:
square 14 by 14:
rectangle 14 by 12:
Additionally the Plain Rectangle Tool supports minus directions;
for example by entering -2*-3 you tell the plugin to create a rectangle 3 units to the left of the start point, and 3 to the top. Example:
KrisHunt axs01 - thanks guys for the feedback.
Thanks,
Pawel Kuc

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