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erick83478234
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December 1, 2019
Question

Temporarily Disable Snapping, and Mouse/Center click Panning

  • December 1, 2019
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Good morning all, I'm muddling through learning Illustrator and am wondering if there's an option to temporarily disable Snapping, either through a programmed shortcut/action, or by a hotkey I don't know about. I work heavily with GIS and CAD programs during the day; they're suprisingly similar to illustrator, and both have an option to pan by holding the center mouse button and dragging, like a smart device. With GIS particularly, a user can temporarily disable snapping by holding down the spacebar. It's a huge time saver. Does anyone have a workaround?  Thanks!

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Toby from Shape
Known Participant
December 1, 2019

Hi Erick,

It depends what you mean by snapping.

With snap to point the mac toggle shortcut is:
Option Command and ' 

 

with Smart Guides the shortcut is:

 

Command and U

These have windows equivilents if thats your platform.  

Toby from Shapehttps://shapecreative.co.nz/