Live Corners and Smart Guides

I am so in love with the fact that live corners are a thing now in Illustrator. I have been waiting for this forever. Or at least, something close it. Unfortunately they're missing a major component that would unclock so many opportunities with them—the ability to interact with the live corner center points while using other tools.
If, for example, smart guides recognize live corner center points, you could create circles with the ellipse tool from them that exactly matched the contour of the live corner. You could of course create additional shapes from that and continue to create really complex, completely accurate shapes, just because you have access to that one center point. Rotate other objects around it, scale objects to it, and so on.
The current implementation is such a missed opportunity. Here's to hoping that in a near future version, other tools, like smart guides and normal guides, recognize the existence of these center points!

Thanks! It did help! Such a pity I didn't know that the toggle thing can be enabled and disabled by a shortcut. And I was looking for direct "Live corners" function, but it is just named somehow differently in the View. Now everything is working, thanks again!

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Illustrator CC: Live corners and snapping disappeared

Hi there,
I am using Illustrator CC and recently I have noticed that I can no longer snap and aligh objects to each other (with the automatic highlighted green color, which shows you the center, intersect e.t.c). As well as the Live corners aren't present, after pressing Direct selection tool nothing changes. None of the settings were changed, at least I was ticking snap to function back, but it didn't change anything again.
Can someone tell me what is wrong and why I just can't see the Live corners? I was also able to see the green helping lines between shapes before, but now it isn't working at all. I am running it on Windows 7.

Thanks! It did help! Such a pity I didn't know that the toggle thing can be enabled and disabled by a shortcut. And I was looking for direct "Live corners" function, but it is just named somehow differently in the View. Now everything is working, thanks again!

Anyone notice the Smart Guides bug in CS5?

ID CS5 has a Smart Guides bug when resizing frames to match the size of other frames. When releasing the mouse after the Smart Guides pop up showing the sizes are equal the frame size changes. When analyzing this it appears the frame does not resize to where the SmartGuides popped up but where the cursor is located. There is also jumpiness between the position of cursor and where the Smart Guides pop up. This behavior occurs vertically and horizontally. While some jumpiness still exist, it works reliably when frames are aligned. In other words, if a frame is resized to a point where two sides are aligned then the size of the frame does not change when the mouse is released.
I have verified the bug in both Windows and Mac versions of IDCS5.
None of the behavior exist with Smart Guides in ID CS4.
Is anyone else experiencing this behavior?

Thanks for checking Peter.
I am using a laptop, Mac OSX 10.5.8, with ATI Radeon X1600. The issue still existed wtih my Wacom tablet mouse and a Logitech mouse. I also just uninstalled the program and reinstalled it and the issue still existed.
This issue also exists on an iMac with Windows 7 running ID CS5 for Windows.
Are you using a Mac by any chance? The issue does not exist so much when the frames are aligned. So, if you are trying it out and Smart Guides creates a line connecting the two frames you need to move them out of alignment. Also, if your cursor is dead center over the edge of the frame all is ok. What it's really doing is snapping to where the cursor is and not to where the Smart Guides popped up. I'll be really surprised if you're not seeing it with a Mac.

[CS3 - Win] Smart Guides not showing up when Snap To Grid enabled

Has anyone else encountered this bug?
AI CS3 13.02
Smart Guides are turned on, but hovering over items does not show the cyan hints, snapping to anchor points / paths etc does not work. This only occurs when Snap To Grid is enabled. If you then go and turn it off, the Smart Guides start working again as expected.
Is this a known bug?
Tom

Thanks for the reply Mike. Smart Guides work perfectly for me provided Snap to Grid is turned off.
I can see there being a conflict between snapping to grid and smart guides in CS3 - which takes precedence? From a UX perspective, if these two snapping modes are mutually exclusive, there should be at the very least an alert letting you know the other mode is disabled; the menu item should be greyed out. Or if it's truly an either-or situation, then the menu needs to be revised such that both snap to grid and smart guides are within the same submenu, and only one can be selected at a time, toggle with CMD+SHIFT+OPT+U.
T

Illustrator CC Free Transform not Snapping to Guides, No Smart Guides

The Free Transform tool in Illustrator CC won't snap to Guides, and Smart Guides don't seem to work either.
I have all the options checked in Preferences > Smart Guides > Display Options and the Snapping Tolerance turned way up.
In CS6, Free Transform with Smart Guides allowed you to snap to paths, points, alignments and guides.
Also: Any way to hide/minimize the Free Transform popup?

James,
Depending on the urgency of your plight, you may await some cleverer suggestions, or read on.
When seems to be wrong for no apparent reason, and it is not limited to certain (existing) documents, you may consider the following (you may have tried/done some of them already) and see whether it helps, unless someone comes up with a cleverer suggestion.
The following is a general list of things you may try when the issue is not in a specific file; 3) and 4) are specifically aimed at possibly corrupt preferences:
1) Close down Illy and open again;
2) Restart the computer (you may do that up to 3 times);
3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);
4) Move the folder Other options (follow the link with that name) with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible);
5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (follow the link with that name, Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy, Item 15) applies to CC, CS6, and maybe CS5);
Even more seriously, you may:
6) Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool, and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

Smart Guides CS4

I'm studying up on inDesign CS4 though Adobe TV. Deke's tutorial on making a text frame shows the frame snaping to guidelines and margins. The dimension arrows appear indicating the frame area is complete top to bottom, left to right.
My settings have snap to guides and smart guides both turned on (check mark). However, the only time I see the dimensions arrows is when I snap to the edge of the page.
I'm snapping to guides and margins, but the arrows do not appear. Am I missing a setting?
William-01

I understand now. Thanks!

Temporarily disable snap/smart guides

I saw that there was an old post on this with an elaborate workaround, but I'm hoping there's something new in CS5.
Is there a button that you can hold that will temporarily disable the snap to and smart guide features so that you can move an object freely? What I'm looking for is the same function as holding the ctrl key while working in InDesign. It seems like it would be really useful to be able to do that and I feel like I'm missing something obvious, so sorry if this is a silly question.

Can someone please point me to WHERE in the AI CS5 help this is actually documented? I've spent the last 15 minutes scoring the hotkeys, and the "Selecting and arranging objects" portions of the help file and no dice. Is Adobe really just counting on the community to do its dirty work of documenting their software properly. This isn't an MMO folks, where it's "part of the game" to figure out how stuff is done. spend more time on your docs.
Note: I'm not saying it ain't there - I'm saying if it is, it ain't logical or cross-referenced. And god forbid one should try to use your Search feature!

Adobe Illustrator CC 2014 – Smart Guides Not Working

I have been having an issue with Illustrator CC 2014's smart guides not snapping to other objects. In this instance I dragged used the 'Selection Tool' to drag one of the 8 points of the bounding box to the second square.
This also happens when trying to resize items to guides, Illustrator 'snaps' the object to the guide, but it is not inline!
I have noticed that this issue does not occur when resizing or moving groups of objects groups of objects. It seems that the two different types of bounding boxes are the issue?

There seems to be a problem with rectangle shapes and smart guides. The problem has been reported in the forum some time ago.

How do I move/duplicate small objects without CC 2014 live corners getting in the way!?

Hi folks,
I'm finding a problem with live corners on the recent Illustrator CC2014 update...
Live Corners used to be a feature of the direct selection tool but now its on both types of selector as default... Much as I love live corners and use it all the time, its now impossible (or really bloody awkward) to move or duplicate (with holding alt and dragging) small rectangles. E.g if I wanted to duplicate out lots of small windows in a building for example. It just grabs a corner and makes its a circle. Zooming in gets around this but it doesn't really solve the problem. I'm also aware that you can turn the live corners off entirely but if I had to do that every time I needed it, we may as well go back to the days of effect>stylise>round corners.
Anyone else come across this new frustration or have a work around?
Tom
http://www.tomnapperdesign.co.uk

> @KrisHunt it's under View>Hide Corner Widget.
Oh, I thought you were talking about the gigantic corner handles, and being able to completely disable live rectangles. The internal rounded corner handles are not a problem for me because they are eternally hidden (via that very menu command) unless I specifically select one or more corners with the direct selection tool, which makes sense.

I have CC and want Illustrator 17 (live corners feature) for 64 bit windows--where do I get it?

Currently have Adobe CC Illustrator 16.2.0 on Windows 64 bit and want to update to 17.1 so I can use the live corners feature. Where can I download this update? It wasn't located where I thought it would be: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=27&platform=Windows
Thanks for your help.

You need to install Creative Cloud app from where you can install Illustrator 17 and 18 versions
https://creative.adobe.com/products/download/creative-cloud

Smart Guides, Constrain Proportions and Resizing an Object.

When I have Smart Guides on and I'm trying to resize an object while holding shift (to constrain) Indesign seems to ignore the shift key. Usually when there's other objects in close proximity, or just closely aligned, vertically or horizontally. The image I posted is a good example. Trying to resize the bracket object while near all those other objects results in a lot of skipping around, and constrain not working. You can see in the image the outline is not constrained, even though I'm holding the shift key. It just wants to jump to those Smart Guides regardless of what I'm trying to tell it to do.
This isn't much of an issue, but basically I'm wondering if this is a bug, or if the Smart Guides, just take priority. It's bit annoying turning smart guides on and off constantly to accomodate this odd behavior. Does anyone have any insight on this?

Hi,
I'm on a Mac Snow Leopard/CS5, and there actually is an update I haven't installed yet. I'm on 7.0.3, so I'll try that out.
If it is a bug it's certainly not the end of the world, but I was curious if anyone else had been dealing with it as well. I love the Smart Guides, except for that.

Smart guides and using the pen tool

This is concerning CS5 15.0.1, on 10.6.4.
If I am drawing a shape with the pen tool (bézier) and I turn on/off smart guides while at it, the pen tool looses the connection to the last point.
Who the heck @Adobe thought that would be helpful? Every time I have to reconnect to the last dot.
Anyone else here noticed that glitch?

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FreeHand could do that some 10 Years ago!
FreeHand could do that 25 years ago—in fact, even before FreeHand existed. Unlike Illustrator, FreeHand provides three basic point types: Corner, Curve, and Connector. Connector Points ensure tangency between a curved and a straight segment. It's a feature of Fontographer, which was FreeHand's progenitor.
But that is far from the only basic superiority of FreeHand over Illustrator's hideous Bezier interface.
JET

Smart guides and snap to point not working in Adobe Illustrator CC 2014

Hello,
I am having a lot of issues with Illustrator CC 2014 and the Smart Guides. Every time I try and snap one object to another or snap an object to a guide, the object snaps either above or below the guide/object but never snaps correctly. This also happens when I am zoomed in all the way!
I do not have align to pixel grid or snap to grid turned on.

David,
I do not have align to pixel grid or snap to grid turned on
It sounds as if Illy thinks the former.
The following is a general list of things you may try when the issue is not in a specific file (you may have tried/done some of them already); 1) and 2) are the easy ones for temporary strangenesses, and 3) and 4) are specifically aimed at possibly corrupt preferences); 5) is a list in itself, and 6) is the last resort.
1) Close down Illy and open again;
2) Restart the computer (you may do that up to 3 times);
3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);
4) Move the folder (follow the link with that name) with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible);
5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (follow the link with that name, Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy, Item 15) applies to CC, CS6, and maybe CS5);
Even more seriously, you may:
6) Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool (if you have CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6/CC), and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

Hello I saw in the latest version of photoshop , smart guides make a measurement between layers, I still have windows xp and I can not buy that version , there is something like to do that but cs6 ? thx

hello I saw in the latest version of photoshop , smart guides make a measurement between layers, I still have windows xp and I can not buy that version , there is something like to do that but cs6 ? thx

There definitely is! Here's a link to the Adobe tutorial: Work with Smart Guides | Adobe Photoshop CC tutorials

Snap to? Smart Guides? Not sure what the issue is but it's annoying.

Just made the big step up from CS2 to CS5. Lots of changes as to be expected but otherwise a smooth transition. Nice work Adobe.
One recurring issue has got me baffled and annoyed. It appears to be a snap-to function yet I'm unable to locate the place where it might be disabled.
In my previous version of InDesign resizing window sizes and shapes was a fluid and easy motion. Now it's staggering and akward. The text and picture boxes want to snap on an unseen grid. I understand how this can be a useful function for some kinds of work but it also gets in the way of composing an image.
Any suggestions on how to disable this?
Presently, I have both Smart Guides and Snap to Document Grid UNCHECKED in the View menu yet I'm remain unable to smoothly and fluidly size my text and picture boxes.
Thanks!

There's another new feature, Live Screen Drawing, that's on by default, but for many users it causes real choppiness in moving around on screen. It's at the bottom of the Interface section of the preferences. Try setting it to Delayed. That will allow you to have a live preview when you really want it by clicking, then holding for a moment before you drag, but moving immediately will give you what you are used to in CS2.
I actually think Smart Guides are worth using. They save me a TON of time.

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