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dannylelieveld
dannylelieveld
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June 23, 2014
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Illustrator cc 2014 grid snap problem

  • June 23, 2014
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Since Updating to the whole cc2014 suite last week, grid snapping in Illustrator has been terrible. Literally Nothing really snaps to the grid.


Does anyone share this problem? Anyone has a solution to this?

And Yes, i've turned off 'align to pixel grid'.

I'm working on a mac with OSX 10.9.3 running.

Thanks in advance!

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    Correct answer Monika Gause

    It's not a bug.

    New rectangles are always live rectangles. Live rectangles cannot be aligned to the pixel grid because it would break them.

    What you need to do is convert your live rectangles to paths (using the command in Object > Shape) and then align them to the pixel grid (by checking the option in the transform panel). You can do this for all of them at once.

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    nortondesigns
    Participant
    December 9, 2014

    I'm having this issue and it's driving me crazy!! I've never seen this before. I am on the most current version of Illustrator CC 2014 on my Mac and PC and the problem persists on both. I have some very tightly aligned triangles and every time I move or scale them the points get all out of alignment. And once I get things fixed, forget trying to align objects to each other or guides.

    I have reset my preferences and tried every suggestion I've seen on this and many other threads. There has to be a solution for this. I will wait for a fix/solution from Adobe, but until then I'll try to find a fix on my own.

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    Mikademius
    Participant
    November 27, 2014

    This is absolutely absurd. I just updated to CC from CS6 and uninstalled CS6...

    I guess I'll just forget about that icon for now. I made a circle and can not snap. Some circles snap, but this one.... man, this one just does not snap at all... Spent an hour (read: $200) so far trying to figure

    out what is going on... I'll just close Illustrator for the day and fire it back up in some months by the looks of it. Snapping is as vital as create new doc...

    btw. The ones that did snap was upon creation. Now I can't snap it after creation.

      Monika Gause
      Community Expert
      Monika GauseCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      November 27, 2014

      Snap what to what else?

      Please be more precise.

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      Mikademius
      Participant
      November 27, 2014

      Snapping a Circle to a grid.

      This thing seems to work for me actually...

      Illustrator won't snap

        chilledchili
        chilledchili
        Participant
        November 3, 2014

        Im having problem with snapping in Illustrator as well

        I work in Web mode - so Align to Pixel Grid should work for everything. And even if I manually select "Align to Pixel Grid", it still doesnt work, neither for lines, rectangles, anything. Should I switch to Adobe Firefox for Wireframing? I'm really used to working in Illustrator

        Joonapuu
        Joonapuu
        Participating Frequently
        November 3, 2014

        I may have found a solution to this annoying snapping problem! Kinda, well not really. I haven't tried it yet. In Creative Cloud application, choose "Apps", and then scroll down to "Find new apps". On the right it has a small drop down menu which says "All apps". From there, choose "Previous versions". Now you can install Illustrator CS6. I know this sounds like a joke, but it seems like the only solution so far. To be honest, I didn't know you could install old versions. This is a good feature, hope it stays in CC 2014.

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        rsantiago001
        Participating Frequently
        October 7, 2014

        Just updated (18.1.0 )and the problem is still there

        Dhirendra Mohan
        Adobe Employee
        Dhirendra Mohan
        Adobe Employee
        October 17, 2014

        Hello rsantiago001,

        Did you try clearing your Adobe Illustrator 18.0 prefs before launching Ai? Try that and let me know if it works then.

        Thanks!

        Dhirendra

        Dhirendra Mohan
        Adobe Employee
        Dhirendra Mohan
        Adobe Employee
        October 7, 2014

        Hello Everyone,

        With the latest update 18.1 of Adobe Illustrator CC 2014, we have fixed the snapping issues with Live Shapes. Please upgrade to the new version of AI and let us know if you are still encountering any snapping problems with Live Shapes. If after the update, snapping doesn't work correctly then please clear your Adobe Illustrator 18 preferences and then verify your workflow again.

        Thanks,

        Dhirendra

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          alistairchisholm
          Participating Frequently
          October 7, 2014

          Hi Dhiendra!

          I'm still noticing small alignment discrepancies. This is now on a microscopic level though.

          To replicate...

          1. Try laying out approximately 10 randomly sized rectangles on a grid
          2. Use the Free transform tool to position and stretch all rectangles onto the same w h x y
          3. Zoom in and view a corner in wireframe mode and I'm seeing all of the rectangles out of alignment

          But this is great. Thank you. This is a huge improvement.

          Dhirendra Mohan
          Adobe Employee
          Dhirendra Mohan
          Adobe Employee
          October 17, 2014

          Hello Alistair,

          Thank you for trying this out. Will it be possible for you to attach a short video showing the problem? This would really help us isolate the issue.

          Thanks!

          Dhirendra

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          rsantiago001
          Participating Frequently
          October 7, 2014

          So they just updated the whole creative suite today and this freaking bug is still here. They just added 3 useless features to illustrator an yet we are unable to draw a bloody snapped to grid rectangle? Come on Adobe!

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            alistairchisholm
            Participating Frequently
            October 6, 2014

            Can anyone from Adobe offer us any news on this? Is it even filed as a bug that you are looking into?

            Every time I open Illustrator, I am met with frustration because of this issue.

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              superreggie
              Participating Frequently
              September 29, 2014

              This is interesting. So I created a doc  in illustrator CC (non-2014) with a rectangle with a rounded corner effect.

              I open it with CC 2014. Can't align it to grid no matter what I do. wtf!

              If I copy that rectangle and paste into a new doc, it pastes aligned to the pixel grid.

              Also, if I now open that original doc with non 2014 after having saved it in 2014, I have that same can't-align-to-pixelgrid problem.

              Just thought that was interesting.

              Monika Gause
              Community Expert
              Monika GauseCommunity Expert
              Community Expert
              September 29, 2014

              Align to pixel grid is an object based attribute. You have to turn it on in order to use it.

              A live shape can't be aligned to the pixel grid. You have to convert it to a normal path in order to be able to turn on align to pixel grid.

              You need to check your objects after handing them from file to file or from version to version.

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              superreggie
              Participating Frequently
              September 30, 2014

              I don't really understand the difference between a live shape and a normal path. Why should there be a difference to the user? If you create a shape with a pen tool, all the behavior should be the same as when you draw an object with an object tool.

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                ChristianAaltonen
                Known Participant
                September 18, 2014

                This is not jus issue of snapping to Px Grid, but snapping in general. Snapping & aligning during resizing & moving does not work properly.

                The issue on image below is happening all the time. (On the image there are two rectangles aligned while drawing using Smart Guides, Outline preview, 6400%.)

                9lcWf90.jpg

                I "developed" something, which might be called a WORKAROUND. It is based on previously mentioned discovery of expanding that weird Live rectangle to the ordinary Dead rectangle, which we all know & love. This is my way of thinking:

                1. Has to convert Live to Dead…
                2. …using keyboard shortcut.
                3. All the easy-to-hit shortcuts are obviously already taken.
                4. I connected "Ctrl + Shift + Q" with the expand command (Object > Shape > Expand Rectangle)
                5. This is not really convenient because of unnatural pinkie-finger gymnastics.
                6. I converted "Ctrl + Shift + Q" to the "Win + Y" (which I considered as easy) using Autohotkey. (http://www.autohotkey.com/)

                This is the most elegant way I found. If you are interested in that script, you can find it here [Dropbox - Ai-KillLiveRectangle[Win+Y].ahk]

                If you dont't want to download the file, the srcipt is simple:

                #y::

                Send ^+q


                [Update:18-09-2014|22:33]

                There is something really rotten deep in the Ai. Scissors Tool and Rotate Tool is very hard to target precisely too. (Not even rectangles.)

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                pacifique1234
                Participating Frequently
                September 18, 2014

                This is so incredibly obnoxious. I just installed Adobe CC the other day and was wondering why nothing was snapping. I thought I was going crazy.

                It would be great if Create Live Rectangle was an option in settings that could be turned off.

                For now, this is what I'm doing to speed up my process. I'm just setting Expand Rectangle as a keyboard shortcut. Does anyone on here know anyone at Adobe so that we could link them to this thread?

                Joonapuu
                Joonapuu
                Participating Frequently
                September 19, 2014

                I was contacted from Adobe about this issue. Apparently they saw this thread, and wanted me to show them my workflow. So they are aware of the problem, but it seems it takes a long time be fixed... This really sucks, since Adobe has a kind of a monopoly on this type of software (in the industry i'm working on anyway), and this bug is really slowing me down.

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