Smart Guides: Disable Intersect Alinement

I've got a page filled with small circles, and I'm using smart guides to draw paths between their centers. However, with so many objects, the intersect guide is distracting. Is there a way to disable it?

The intersect guide can be turned off under Preferences.
Note: I'm new to CS6...upgraded from the very old CS3 and I had trouble moving object tiny amounts...it kept snapping some other direction. Solution... turn off the anit-aliasing feature under the transform window. Note: I plan on turning this back on again once I'm done creating this artwork, since I am using it on websites and have learned that the anti-aliasing makes the type appear crisper when converting to a PNG.

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Lightgeist,
In addition to what Lutz said, is Align to Pixel Grid ticked in the Transform palette? If it is, you may select everything and untick it, and untick Align New Objects to Pixel Grid in the Options (and choose another document type or change the defaults).

CS5 Photoshop - How do I disable Smart Guides

Hello,
Smart guides are driving me mad. It never selects the region I'm selecting. It causes the selection to always jump a little up or to the left or right and then I have to zoom in to readjust the selection. The innacurate selection thanks to these guides are driving me absolutely crazy! Is there a way to disable them because I can't seem to find it.
CS5's logic is really aggravating and slows down the creativew process as I have to interrupt my flow constantly.
Any help is appreciated
~TheEternalAbyss

I'm not sure if I can get a screenshot that would be helpful. I can try to get some, but in the meantime I can try to describe step by step what I'm trying to do:
1. I select the Marquee toool in order to make a selection around an object I want to modify
2. Then I am simply making my selection
3. The result is the my selection is just slightly off from where I had selected
4. Then in order to fix it I have to zoom in and modify the selection using ctrl/alt+selecting with my mouse
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Is Illustrator CC's Smart Guides Intersect label MIA?

I recently upgraded from Illustrator CS5 to the latest Illustrator CC version and I noticed that Smart Guides no longer label intersecting lines... Is there a preference I need to enable for that label to appear as it did on CS5?

It's a tweak to put the ruler origin in Illustrator back the way it was before Adobe changed in CS4.
Example:
In pre-CS5 if you wanted to move an object dimensionally up and the right 1 inch you would select the item, double click on the black arrow tool and and in the Move window you would type "Horizontal 1, Vertical 1" and it would move up and to the right 1 inch. But, in CS5 Illustrator was change from using quadrant 1 to quadrant 4 (similar to how Indesign is) so if you wanted to move the same object up and to the right 1 you would need to enter "Horizontal 1, Vertical -1".
Which means you would always be working in negative space. If you're new to Illustrator you wouldn't even notice this but for "Veterans" this was a bit of pain... so someone out there was cleaver enough to figure out to "tweak" how the ruler interprets the origin and restore Illustrator to use quadrant 1.
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How to change the ruler origin in Illustrator.
To change the ruler origin (and direction of the Y axis) in CC to be the same as in CS4 and earlier:
Close down Illustrator (you can only change the preference file with Illustrator closed);
This is a global change so you only have to do it once (just as you can undo it once).
Pref file directory is as follows (please note the Library may be hidden):
/Users/<username>/Library/Preferences/Adobe Illustrator Settings/en_US/1
Find and open the Adobe Illustrator Prefs file with Textedit
Find and change the following two bits of code:
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/isRulerIn4thQuad 1 change it to /isRulerIn4thQuad 0
Close and save the Pref file.
I only use Illustrator 1n OSX so I don't know where the Pref file is stored on Windows. I did not figure this out and I do not take any credit for this tweak. ***Mod at your OWN RISK***

Intersect bug with Smart Guides

The December updated didn't fix the intersect bug with Smart Guides. Previously it would snap to the intersection of paths and show you the intersect point. With CC it does nothing. Just passes straight over. Would you please fix this. Having to use AI CS5 just so I can work on the maps I need to produce. Thanks.
Anyone know how a work around/fix to this until we get it fixed by the AI guys?

Never mind... a little more digging and found the solution in this thread:
Add anchor point tool not snapping to intersection point

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!

Disabling smart guides

Hello,
How can I keep smart guides turned on so that it snaps to points and lines, but at the same time disable the snap to angle function? I have tried changing the fields in the preferences to 0 degrees, or even leaving the fields empty but it seems to always want to snap to some angle.
Thanks,
JT

John,
there are a lot of reasons and most of them have been mentioned in both the AI Mac and Win forum many times. There is a short summary by Scott Weichert to which I agree for the most part.
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc8ba34/6
To me, the AI CS 3 Outline stroke bug is the most fatal one and this bug alone has made me quit using CS 3 very soon. There are other bug related reasons, too.
Also, I am not going to accept and support Adobe's new aggressive pricing policy in conjunction with international versions of Illustrator CS 3 and the whole Creative suite series. Prices for non US American versions always used to be a bit higher (which is ok), but this time Adobe decided to overdraw its policy. You can understand that by consulting Adobe's international online stores and comparing the prices.
It does not necessarily have to concern you, but to me (and to many other users I know) it was definitely another reason to reject using Illustrator CS 3.

Illustrator CC2014 does snap the Cut tool to path intersections w/ Smart Guides on

This is driving me crazy. Is there something I'm overlooking here or is this (essential) feature missing in CC2014?

Hey Jacob,
This applies to all paths.
You can try it for yourself - just draw two intersecting lines with the Line Segment tool, turn on smart guides, and try to snap Cut to the intersection.
This is kind of driving me crazy because it means to cut lines / objects exactly, I have to draw another shape, snap an anchor to the intersection (at least this works), send it to the back and then snap the Cut tool to the new anchor.

In CS6, smart guides don't appear to be working correctly.

I'm having some trouble with smart guides in Ai CS6. They are on. However, when my cursor intersects a guide path, words like 'intersect' and 'guide' do not appear, as I have seen them do for others. Also, the 'heads-up' information display that shows the width and height, e.g. when using the grid tool, does not appear either.
The guides are working to some extent, it seems, since I do get green lines here and there.

dustOfRumors,
If you have Snap to Grid on, it disables the use of Smart Guides, so you may turn it off, if.

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.

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

Has anyone else encountered this bug?
AI CS3 13.02
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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

Smart Guides off by a tiny amount

I've recently been working on a project involving a large amount of stroked paths. I'm tracing a scan of a line drawing and have been using the Scissors tool a lot to trim where one path runs into another. When I do this I turn Smart Guides on and use Scissors to "snip" paths at intersections. I'm careful about only clicking when the intersection is highlighted, but occasionally I notice that the trim is a tiny bit off. Usually I'll spot a line's round cap extending a little past the line it "runs into" (as in the image here), and when I zoom in I can clearly tell that the anchor point I created with the Scissors tool is a little off. Often it's more obvious than the image example I've provided. I then have to use Scissors again, usually at max zoom, and I continue on with a slight queasy feeling in my stomach, knowing there are ones out there I haven't caught.
I can't even be sure if this issue is only related to the Scissors tool, it might just be a Smart Guides thing. This is obviously not a crushing problem, but I think this community can respect a desire for precision in vector artwork, not to mention the fact that when I start adding fills I may run into problems. Pathfinder might work better than Scissors here, but I don't need a workaround, there's no reason Smart Guides should be dysfunctional with Scissors.
I've searched past discussions pretty thoroughly and haven't found anything like this. Maybe it's something with my prefs? I've never messed with them -- just started using Illustrator on this machine several months ago. Also, for this project I'm currently working with pixel units with Align to Pixel Grid turned off, if that helps. Can't recall ever experiencing this issue before, although most of my work in Illustrator has been on different machines.
CS6, late 2013 iMac running 10.9.2. Thanks in advance if you have any ideas!

Tara,
You may be haunted by the Align to Pixel Grid ghost.
If so, select everything and untick Align to Pixel Grid in the Transform palette, and also untick Align New Objects to Pixel Grid in the options there.
To avoid it altogether, use a document type without Align to Pixel Grid as the default (RGB documents for web and the like), or change the default.

Turning off smart guides breaks pen line

Has anybody noticed that if you switch smart guides on or off (with Cmd+U) while you are drawing with the pen tool it breaks the path. You have to go back and draw from the last anchor point. Sometimes smart guides help, sometimes they're a pain, depending on what part of a path you are drawing, so it's useful to be able to turn them on or off while you are drawing. Is there a workaround? (CS3).

Thanks Kurt and Mon. This works fine.
However, there's another thing I noticed while I was playing around with smart guide prefs:
It seems there is no way to disable Angles, not even if you try to delete all figures from the 6 boxes. At least, I can't get Custom Angles to work that way. Smart guides always seem to revert to 90° & 45° Angles. When drawing with the pen it's often useful to see where other anchor points and paths are, but constrained angles are a pain.

Smart Guides overrides Shift-to-Constrain

I love Smart Guides. I'm very glad they've been added to InDesign. I had even put in a feature request years ago. However, there is a flaw. When I am Option-dragging to drag a copy of an object, and holding Shift so that the new object is horizontally aligned to the old object, sometimes Smart Guides forces my new object a bit up or down. Seemingly over-eager to please, it is trying to align to something else; in a recent instance, being evenly distributed with some other objects.
I contend that holding Shift to constrain should override Smart Guides. I don't expect to hear a solution here (beyond temporarily disabling Smart Guides when needed), just seeing if anyone else has the same issue. I'll be putting in a feature request.

Just tried that and it makes no difference whether I hit shift before or during. Oddly enough, if I just let the Smart Guides do the work instead of shift, it will work, but adding shift makes it decide to try to evenly distribute to some other objects instead.
My personal issue with letting Smart Guides do my shift-constraining is that it's a lot more finnicky to make sure it's snapping to the right thing. It might be aligning to a nearby object; it's not always crystal clear based on the lines that are appearing. Using shift is supposed to ensure that, hey, it's just dragging along the horizontal or vertical axis, without having to be very careful or look too closely. Shift constraining is such a firmly established tool that it's throwing me for a loop that it doesn't always work like it should anymore. It should have seniority!
Not losing any sleep over it. I'm just saying.

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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