Have anchor points snap to grid changed?

My anchor points used to snap to the grid when using the pen tool on a 1px before in Adobe Illustrator CC 2014. Has this changed for this version?
If not, does anyone know how I would be able to enable this feature again? I have all my snap to grid settings etc. on.

THIS IS REALLY FRUSTRATING (and I'm not the type to use all caps all over the place). Here are the repro steps (in case that were helpful):
Illustrator CS6
Turn on snap to grid.
Create a circle.
Drag out each of the handles closer to the corners of the circle's space.
Notice that the handles snap to the intersection points on the grid.
Illustrator CC (18.0.0)
Turn on snap to grid.
Create a circle (move it around to double-ensure that snap to grid is functioning properly for the shape).
Drag out each of the handles.
Notice that there is no way to ensure that the handles move in the exact same amount all the way around the circle. They do not snap.
Try the scale tool. Select a point and hit ‘s’, then drag out a handle. Notice that it still doesn’t snap to point.
This sort of thing is suicide for Illustrator. It’s the one program that should let you make whatever vector shape you want without having to resort to crazy workarounds. How can we make awesome things like this without the kind of control we used to have in Illustrator?
BTW, there's another thread on this topic too:
Restore snap-to-grid behaviour for path handles

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You're welcome.
There are a couple of issues connected to it:
http://www.vektorgarten.de/problems-align-to-pixel-grid.html
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Since it was not answered by the Adobe Illustrator CC staff, I'll ask again:
I use the handles snapping to grid functionality extensively when creating icons and other detail-intensive shapes. How do I re-enable this feature, or is it necessary to revert to an older, more functional version of Illustrator?
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there was a discussion on this when the feature was first removed. did you see it? I think a support staff member posted in it, but nothing positive...
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Re: Have anchor points snap to grid changed?

How can I snap anchor points to grid?

I am trying to snap anchor points to the grid so I don't have to eye-ball the curves. Is there a way that I can do this?

Luke,
How about View>Snap to Grid?

HowTo: Turn on snapping for Anchor Point of Rectangle's Transform?

I do not mean the Transform of the Shape Layer, I mean to have snapping of the Transform of the path object (in this case a Rectangle) anchor point snap to... well, anything. Right now I can't get it to snap to anything.

Rick, why spend ages explaining what can be done with something irrelevant to the question, when the question is very simple.
QUESTION:
How can snapping be turned on for the anchor of contents within a Shape Layer?
The answer is...
There is no way to snap the anchor of an object in a shape layer to ANYTHING.
So don't bother trying to find out how to turn it on, play with modifier keys or otherwise go insane trying to find documentation that actually pertains to this information in ANY WAY.
The amount of time I wasted trying to find if this was possible is an embarrassment to the documentation writers and marketers of Adobe's products.
//This is the transform and its anchor that exists above the actual Layer's transform and Anchor. NOT the Shape Layer's anchor, which does snap, but is next to useless for object oriented snapping requirements for the anchor and position of the actual objects drawn on the Shape Layer. It's as though the Shape Layer is really a Solid Layer with some additional, halfarsed drawing features. Good luck differentiating between these two things with search results using the world's best search engine. It's a complete mindFart of epic proportions that finds such terrible ways to name these things that there's no easier way to refer to the differences in these transforms.
You cannot snap the anchor of content in a Shape Layer to a grid, guide, edge, object, point or anything else.
It cannot be done. That's the only answer to this question.
This despite there being a specific tool for moving this anchor point.
This despite Adobe bragging about snapping being a big new (recent) feature.
Rick, why do you defend Adobe? They are an enormous company with thousands of employees and billions of $ in profits and assets. They don't need you to obfuscate shortcomings in their software.
How hard is it to say that Adobe's software can't do something?
You know why Adobe annoy people, because we waste so much time finding what it can't do, because the marketers AND the community are in denial about deficiencies and the constant need for thinking in terms of "work arounds".
Just be honest about shortcomings and deficiencies and it will not only save everyone a bunch of time, but actually endear them to you.

[newbie] Sharing anchor points across paths/shapes? + Pen visual feedback? + Show all paths?

Hey all, as stated I'm a newbie at Illustrator. Any help's appreciated. My questions:
1) Is it possible to have anchor points be part of more than 1 path? I want to have 2 adjacent filled paths that share anchor points, so that if I move the common edge anchors, both shapes are affected. Kinda like in Flash, I suppose.
My guess is this is impossible though? Then how do people working with Illustrator a lot tackle this problem? I mean adjusting 2 shapes with several common anchor points (not shared, just in the same position), for adjacent shapes.
2) Is it possible to set the Pen tool to give visual feedback like in Photoshop when moving the mouse to a new position to add a new anchor point? What Photoshop does is show the path segment that would be created if you were to click at the current mouse position, whenever you move the mouse. Illustrator doesn't show this with me right now, so I'm left to guess what the exact path segment will look like when I click (less convenient imo).
3) Is there a way to always show all paths on the current layer, even if they are not selected? And I do NOT mean Outline mode, I'm aware of that. The problem I'm facing is that - when working with multiple paths - I want to see them all when adding a new path, so I can easily align anchor points and what not with the other paths, but I do NOT want to hide the image I'm tracing (which would happend in Outline mode).
Thanks in advance.
Victor

You might get what you re after using Live Paint. Here I have drawn an oval and a wavy line — two paths. After converting to a Live Paint object I can selectively fill and stroke any closed area or and segment.
No.
Put the object or image you are tracing on a Template layer. Or Command (Mac) or Control (Windows) click on the eye next to a layer name to change only that layer’s view mode.

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Can you change the anchor point of a swf in CP5.5?

I have created a small swf in Flash and have published it.
I've imported the swf into CP5.5 and applied an effect of anti clockwise rotate and assymetric zoom out in an effort to get it to spiral backwards into oblivion.
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Regards

Col,
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