Snapping enhancements in Illustrator

Use Snap to Tangent in Illustrator to draw or adjust lines that connect smoothly and precisely to curves. This feature ensures clean geometric accuracy by making lines touch curves at exactly one point—ideal for logos, technical drawings, and designs with circular or organic shapes.

Using Smart Guides, you can precisely snap to the endpoints, midpoints, and centers of any object, ensuring quicker, more consistent alignment throughout your design.

Snap to Grid

The enhanced Snap to Grid feature allows for flexible object placement within grid cells, while still enabling precise snapping to grid lines or intersections when needed. Newly added dotted guides offer clear visual feedback, making it easier than ever to achieve pixel-perfect alignment.

Snap to Pixel

Improved Snap to Pixel ensures your artwork stays perfectly aligned to the pixel grid by removing half-pixel shifts and unclear alignment hints. Guides now appear only when objects are truly pixel-aligned, helping you create sharp, accurate designs ideal for screen use.

Switch between Snap to Grid, Snap to Pixel, Snap to Point, and Smart Guides

Easily switch between Snap to Grid, Snap to Pixel, Snap to Point, and Smart Guides using the Snapping Quick Access panel located under the Control bar. Instantly adjust snapping preferences like Alignment Guides and Snap to Glyph for smoother, more precise alignment without interrupting your workflow.

Precisely align shapes

You can now precisely align shapes and paths to the endpoint, midpoint, and center of any rotated object. Improved Smart Guides automatically detect rotation angles, ensuring consistent alignment no matter the orientation.

Restrict object snapping

You can now restrict snapping to objects solely within the active artboard, and enable snapping to isolated objects directly from the Preferences panel. This helps avoid unwanted alignment with elements outside your workspace, keeping your edits precise and focused.

New advanced Smart Guides settings

Take advantage of the new advanced Smart Guides settings to tailor how objects align and snap on the canvas. You can enable forced snapping to the grid, adjust snapping tolerance, or display guides during snapping - allowing snapping to effortlessly adapt to your workflow.

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