Smart Guides without the snapping

I would want to see them but without the snapping.
Ben

At least up to Illustrator 13, there is a trick or rather a lousy hack that involves the Snap to Grid command and its talent to temporarily disable any Smart Guides functionality. The following has to be prepared in case you're going to execute the hack as an action:
1. In the Actions Palette, create a new Action set. Call it 'Disable Smart Guides'.
2. Within the Action set, create a new action. Call it 'Disable Smart Guides', assign an F-key to the action, let's say F3, and hit Enter.
3. In the Actions Palette menu, select the Insert Menu Item command and go to View > Snap to Grid
4. Stop recording the action
5. Go to Edit > Preferences > Guides & Grid
6. In the Gridline Every text box, enter 0,01 mm. It's the minimum value you can set here.
7. In the Subdivisions text box, enter 1000, the max. value accepted here.
Now, take any document, turn on Smart Guides, make sure Snap to Grid is turned off, and start drawing a path. Hit F3 and continue drawing the path. Hit F3 again as soon as you need your Smart Guides again.
As you can see, after hitting F3 to enable Snap to Grid, the path will not be interrupted when placing the next point. And as you've got a kind of microscopic Grid settings, Snap to Grid has almost no influence on where the points are placed. In fact, it still snaps, but due to the absurd Grid settings it's rather negligible.
This palpable workaround was originally invented by a young lady located around Edmonton in Canada.

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With transform tool, I'm limited by the bounding box and cannot drag the corners of the square to the cube's top corners:
With envelope distort, when I drag a corner point the edges become warped:
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Any way to temporarily ignore smart guides while using the pen tool?

I'm having a hate and love relationship with Smart Guides. When I want them they're bad; when I don't they're good.
While trying to do some things with the pen tool, I am frequently faced with the smart guides snapping my tool around without my wanting it snapped. I'm not really that good with the pen tool yet, so it's making an uphill climb even harder when they interfere.
Now I know that I can disable smart guides by doing Ctrl-U, but this has the side effect of releasing my pen from the current curve I'm working on. When I click the end of that curve to start where I left off it changes the anchor to a corner instead of curve and messes up what I was going on. This wouldn't be such a problem except that I sometimes want the guides while I'm still on the same curve so I don't want to fully disable them as I'm working and then have to re-enable to fix a spot, know what I mean?
So, is there a key I can hold down to temporarily turn disable smart guides or ignore them in some way? I've hit quite a few keys trying this out so I'm guessing no. This probably indicates I just need to improve my skill to learn how to work with this best.

At least up to Illustrator 13, there is a trick or rather a lousy hack that involves the Snap to Grid command and its talent to temporarily disable any Smart Guides functionality. The following has to be prepared in case you're going to execute the hack as an action:
1. In the Actions Palette, create a new Action set. Call it 'Disable Smart Guides'.
2. Within the Action set, create a new action. Call it 'Disable Smart Guides', assign an F-key to the action, let's say F3, and hit Enter.
3. In the Actions Palette menu, select the Insert Menu Item command and go to View > Snap to Grid
4. Stop recording the action
5. Go to Edit > Preferences > Guides & Grid
6. In the Gridline Every text box, enter 0,01 mm. It's the minimum value you can set here.
7. In the Subdivisions text box, enter 1000, the max. value accepted here.
Now, take any document, turn on Smart Guides, make sure Snap to Grid is turned off, and start drawing a path. Hit F3 and continue drawing the path. Hit F3 again as soon as you need your Smart Guides again.
As you can see, after hitting F3 to enable Snap to Grid, the path will not be interrupted when placing the next point. And as you've got a kind of microscopic Grid settings, Snap to Grid has almost no influence on where the points are placed. In fact, it still snaps, but due to the absurd Grid settings it's rather negligible.
This palpable workaround was originally invented by a young lady located around Edmonton in Canada.

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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.

Smart guides headache,

Below is a link to a tutorial I found on perspective in ai cs5. After downpoading the ai file,
I looked at it in outline view Ctrl+y.I zoomed into the drawing and saw all the object alignment flaws, a great example
of how cs4/cs5 faulty smart guides have added countless hours of frustrating extra work.
My compliments to Anil Ahuja for the fine work, it must have driven you mad all that faulty snapping.
PLEASE FIX THE SMART GUIDES ISSUES ADOBE
http://blogs.adobe.com/infiniteresolution/

I'm very sure I'm patched to 6.04 at work (home now, but very sure as it came out in Sept 09 and I'm running new 27"ers [g]).
When I shift-drag an item to hold the alignment to the original position, if a smart-guide-sensed boundary is within the snap distance to the original position, holding shift moves the object to the smart-guided-sensed alignment, and will not snap to the previous position. Turning off smart guides solves the problem. No mention of it here: http://indesignsecrets.com/indesign-cs4-6-0-4-update-now-available.php
A particularly annoying problem as it doesn't move the object much (snap distance?). Could be easy to overlook. How long this has been going on I'm not even sure. When I get some time at work, I'll try 6.00 through 6.04. I'm not sure when I noticed the problem. Maybe it's a SL / Leopard thing as I just moved from Tiger.

Smart guides overriding shift / cardinal directions.

Smart guides override snapping to the previous position using the shift key while dragging an object. I suppose they're only trying to help and the underlying problem is with my document composition, but smart guides seems to respect every other boundary imaginable (a lovely feature for me, and why turning them off is no solution), except the previous position of the object while holding shift (which seems to be the most important one, since I've taken time to hold shift). It ignores the previous position completely, not even adding it to one of the many stops of the alignment train...
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I'm very sure I'm patched to 6.04 at work (home now, but very sure as it came out in Sept 09 and I'm running new 27"ers [g]).
When I shift-drag an item to hold the alignment to the original position, if a smart-guide-sensed boundary is within the snap distance to the original position, holding shift moves the object to the smart-guided-sensed alignment, and will not snap to the previous position. Turning off smart guides solves the problem. No mention of it here: http://indesignsecrets.com/indesign-cs4-6-0-4-update-now-available.php
A particularly annoying problem as it doesn't move the object much (snap distance?). Could be easy to overlook. How long this has been going on I'm not even sure. When I get some time at work, I'll try 6.00 through 6.04. I'm not sure when I noticed the problem. Maybe it's a SL / Leopard thing as I just moved from Tiger.

Refine smart guides....

As it is now smart guides becomes problematic when you have lots of lines and points in your illustration. It becomes what I call 'snap to crap'. It some point there are so many points that you can no longer sanp to the point you want.
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-C

I'm very sure I'm patched to 6.04 at work (home now, but very sure as it came out in Sept 09 and I'm running new 27"ers [g]).
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A particularly annoying problem as it doesn't move the object much (snap distance?). Could be easy to overlook. How long this has been going on I'm not even sure. When I get some time at work, I'll try 6.00 through 6.04. I'm not sure when I noticed the problem. Maybe it's a SL / Leopard thing as I just moved from Tiger.

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So you are saying you want to either snap objects on the pasteboard to other objects or snap page objects to pasteboard objects using smart guides? As you've seen, it doesn't work that way. file a feature request, and be sure to make a case for how this will improve your workflow. Adobe - Feature Request/Bug Report Form

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.

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

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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.

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.
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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 Guide/Snap to point not working

Hi
I am trying to remove a circular shape from a rectangle in illustrator, the retangles width is 10px and the diameter of the circle is 13px, I centre the circle ontop of the rectangle ( or I appear to) but when I use the Shape mode tool minus front, the circle is no longer centred ( see images)
I have tried switching off smart guides and snap to grid and am still having the same problem.
In the above image you can see once I have divided the 13px circle from the rectangle it has moved off to one side.
Also when I am trying to manually place the circle ( rather than using the centre guides ) I can only move it by a large degree it alway moves further than I move the mouse, could this be because of a pixel grid? I do not think I am using this. ( can see in the above image where I am trying to place the circle and when I let go of the mouse, the grey circle is where it lands
From the 2 images below you can see that there is a 1px difference on either side of the extracted circle I was trying to get centred
I should mention that the 'Align to pixel grid' in the transform menu is inactive when I am trying to do this, as I initially thought that this may be the cause of my problems, but it made no difference

Rebecca,
So why does the minus front tool mess up alignment so much?
No clue. I believe this issue has never been reported.
At a first glance, it really looked like an Align to Pixel Grid issue, and also the fact that it works when both object widths have an odd (or even) number of pixels.
But that is apart from the fact that you stated that it was off. If it were on, Align to Pixel Grid would apply to the circle, to the rectangle, or to both.
Obviously, it is possible to (direct) select each and check. It is also possible to check the Y value of the centre for both in the Transform palette and see that they are actually identical before applying the Pathfinder.
And if on, Align to Pixel Grid should also affect/destroy the Object>Path>Divide Objects Below way. And it should make it impossible to even place both objects centre aligned when one is an odd number of pixels wide and the other is an even number wide.
As the issue is described, it may indicate some Pathfinder>Minus Front malfunctioning.
It may be worth trying some of the following things (you may have tried/done some of them already) and see whether it helps (the following is a general list of things you may try when it 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;
3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);
4) Move the folder with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible);
5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy, other items may also be relevant);
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6) Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool if you have CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6, and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

Smart Guides without the snapping

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