I'm having trouble getting shapes to snap to each other in Illustrator CS6

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November 28, 2021
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So I'm trying to make a golden ratio template for myself and my canvas is in points (792 pt by 612 pt)

I'm starting off with a 10pt by 10pt square and circle, but no matter what I do, they won't snap to each other, so they look like this right now:

This is what the preferences for my Grids & Guides looks like as well as Smart Guides:

Smart Guides, Snap to Grid and Snap to point are all checked in the view tab, but the problem still persists.

Any suggestions as what I should do?

Thanks.

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Met1

Legend

Turn off all the various snaps and just use align.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Maybe your gridline every 1 pt with 10 subdivisions is a little too much (try 10pt with 10 divisions).

And try not to activate too many snap to functions at the same time.

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Elena21975049ek9bAuthor

Participant

I tried that, I'm still having problems. Especially when I try to scale.

I'm trying to make a Golden Ratio Template for myself, and as you can see the bigger square and circle don't align.

Lukas Engqvist

Community Expert

I would suggest turning off Snap to grid.

You may want to create this kind of graphics with the X, Y, H & W settings though the Control Panel. If one object is off then you will have problems with the other objects.

Ged_Traynor

Community Expert

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