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I cannot for the life of me snap to grids

Forum|Forum|4 months ago
January 11, 2026
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demo.gif

I have only sanp to grid on

SmythWharf_0-1768172882322.png

but i cannot snap to the grid - not mater what i am doing

this is a 1200px x 1200px canvas with grid lines 120px x 5

nothing I do allows me to snap to grid as i want

here is the same example but square rotated

Untitled-2_200RGB_Preview2026-01-1101-09-47-ezgif.com-video-to-gif-converter.gif

and I also have all pixel grid turned off too

SmythWharf_1-1768173084145.png

This is very confusing any ideas?

Best

Ares Hovhannesyan

Community Expert

Try to reset preferences and try again

Harshika Verma

Community Manager

Hi SmythWharf,

Hope you're doing well!

We would like to follow up on your issue. Are you able to resolve the issue? Did you share the file with our expert as requested? Please share the details of your operating system and the version of Illustrator installed on your machine.

Does that happen with all files, or just this one?

We will be happy to investigate further.

Thanks,

Harshika

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SmythWharfAuthor

Known Participant

https://filebin.net/2lovrgyz252xm5j7

This a link to the file of which I have recreated, I also got some people at work to test and they cannot, we are on some 2025 and 2026 versions, but from what I can tell just can't get it to work.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Works fine here, what are your advanced settings?

Screenshot 2026-01-25 at 21.36.27.png

snap.zip

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Can you share that file? Save as PDF or rename .ai to .pdf to attach it to a post here.

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