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Disable ALL snapping??

Explorer ,
Mar 01, 2011 Mar 01, 2011

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I have seen a couple of people post a similar question in these forums with no real response:

It seems there is no way to stop illustrator (CS5) from snapping to the edge of the artboard.  Even if you hide the artboard, it still snaps to the invisible artboard.

is it possible that the brilliant folks at adobe missed this one and there is no way to disable this snapping to the artboard?

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LEGEND , Mar 01, 2011 Mar 01, 2011

Nope. You're correct. The artboard bounds always snap. It's annoying. I've filed a couple feature requests about it.

The only solution is to move the artwork or adjust the size of the artboard so you aren't working at it's edge.

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LEGEND ,
Mar 01, 2011 Mar 01, 2011

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Nope. You're correct. The artboard bounds always snap. It's annoying. I've filed a couple feature requests about it.

The only solution is to move the artwork or adjust the size of the artboard so you aren't working at it's edge.

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Community Expert ,
Mar 01, 2011 Mar 01, 2011

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In CS4 I can turn off preferences >> smart Guide >> alignment Guides(OFF), and that turns of snapping for me to the artboards. Unless they changed this for CS5 would believe this would work for you too.

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LEGEND ,
Mar 01, 2011 Mar 01, 2011

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Doesn't seem to make a difference for me in CS5, Mike.

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Community Expert ,
Mar 01, 2011 Mar 01, 2011

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I tried this at different zoom levels in CS4 , and with snap to point on, and a snapping tolerance of 4pts.

Strange thing is that once I get to 1600% or greater zoomed in snapping stops, whether I have the alignment guides checked or not. You may want to try being zoomed in CS5 to see what happens. That aggravates me, cause when I am zoomed in I really want snapping to work.

If I try to snap at a distance, I may see smart guides flash intersect drop it but every once in awhile miss one of the coordinates and don't notice till I zoom in. I often see people trying to snap with a wacom tablet, am I wrong for thinking that the wacom is the wrong tool to use when snapping?

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LEGEND ,
Mar 01, 2011 Mar 01, 2011

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The tablet shouldn't matter. I've been using a tablet 100% of the time in all applications for at least 5 years. Never really had an issue with it. How you drag a handle or object doesn't matter. It's all dragged the same within the app.

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Explorer ,
Mar 01, 2011 Mar 01, 2011

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doesn't fix it for me in CS5 either.  Are you sure its not snapping in CS4?  With larger artboards I barely, if at all, notice the snap but try scaling the object down to say 25x25px and make the artboard 32x32px then see if it doesn't snap.

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Community Expert ,
Mar 01, 2011 Mar 01, 2011

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OK I tried the 32px artboard, and it still did not snap with the smart guides >> alignment guides off in CS4.

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Explorer ,
Mar 01, 2011 Mar 01, 2011

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i tried turning snap to point on and off and with different tolerances and it still snaps to artboard.

don't know if it makes a diff that I am on Windows, not mac.

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LEGEND ,
Mar 01, 2011 Mar 01, 2011

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Ahhh.. I figured it out.....

Set the Preferences > Smart Guides > Alignment Guides to unchecked.

Then

Turn ON smart guides (I normally have them off).

No snapping.

So you must have smart guides on, and the alignment guides unchecked.

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Community Expert ,
Mar 01, 2011 Mar 01, 2011

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Also turn off align to pixel grid in CS5 if you have that on in the transform palette.

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Explorer ,
Mar 01, 2011 Mar 01, 2011

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that does it for sure. ty

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New Here ,
Dec 08, 2011 Dec 08, 2011

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Thanks scott...

I had this frackin' artwork with a stroke aligned to middle and the frackin' thing was snapping to the INSIDE of the stroke, couldn't change the stroke to align to inside or else artwork would get screwed... trying to make the artwork the exact size as the artboard there so had to do it manually since it was snapping at the wrong spot. NOT SO QUICK... had to run troubleshooting just to get a piece of artwork to line up to the edge of the artboard properly and have been doing this graphic design stuff for half my life. NOT COOL.

Update: so it took 20 minutes to resize a piece of art the exact size of the artboard. Phew!!!!!! Now for something REALLY challenging!

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New Here ,
Mar 13, 2012 Mar 13, 2012

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EVERYthing I try, does NOTHING! this is outrageous. Snap to whatever is still persistent with illustrator CS 5.0.

What an unreliable feature! When you need it to snap, it fails.

I have often zoomed in due to an acute lack of confidence.

And sure enough, my selected object did not do what it lead me to believe it would do.

Is this product now a victim cheap offshore child labourers?

  This brutal flaw wastes SO MUCH of my time each, and, every day.


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Community Beginner ,
Sep 18, 2014 Sep 18, 2014

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This saved me a lot of frustration! Thank you so much [scott]!

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New Here ,
Mar 04, 2015 Mar 04, 2015

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This answer works for me in CC 2014

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Community Beginner ,
Oct 01, 2011 Oct 01, 2011

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Oh my god guys you saved my macbook, I was about to throw it from the window after an hour of unsuccessful attempts to move a couple of lines around, this snap was ruining it again and again and I was really pissed off after turning out all snapping options in the program and still having this snap to artboard.

Thanks for helping with this annoyance!

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New Here ,
Apr 12, 2012 Apr 12, 2012

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Its a very bad thing because illustrator is one of the most used apps for design, is in the top of gamma for this design market and someway Adobe have a monopoly in this, for many designers how us, we can´t do anything, just most adapt. In this moment, (how many other), I have the same problem, and I most transform my vertor draw 400% for this problem.

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New Here ,
Aug 26, 2012 Aug 26, 2012

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I'm new to CS6...upgraded from the very old CS3 and I had trouble moving object in tiny increments without it snapping back to where it originally was.

I too had turned off all the "snapping" stuff under Preferences and under Window...but nothing worked...

MY SOLUTION... turn off the anit-aliasing feature hiding under the transform window.

Note: I plan on turning this back on again once I'm done creating this artwork, since I am using it on websites and have learned that the anti-aliasing makes the type appear crisper when converting to a PNG.

Hope this helps.

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Explorer ,
Feb 19, 2013 Feb 19, 2013

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Under View menu,  make sure "Snap to grid" and "Snap to point" are both unchecked.

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 27, 2013 Mar 27, 2013

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Guys, I had given up on Illustrator because of this.  I had been doing all my vector work in PS.  I'm using CS6, and NONE of the above worked for me.  But I figured out:  When you create a new document make sure you turn off "align to pixel grid IN THE NEW DOCUMENT DIALOGUE!   (apologize if web shouting is offensive to some, but some of us are in a hurry and quick glances are more effective like this!) 

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Participant ,
Mar 17, 2014 Mar 17, 2014

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None of the suggestions here worked for me. However, if I turn Smart Guides ON, then I am able to align two existing points very close to the edge of the artboard without it snapping to the edge of the artboard. I did have to be zoomed in.

CS6

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Community Beginner ,
May 23, 2017 May 23, 2017

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It won't work on my CC version.

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Community Expert ,
May 23, 2017 May 23, 2017

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  schrieb

It won't work on my CC version.

Please create your own new thread, describe your exact setup (system and version) and the exact nature of the problem. THank you.

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New Here ,
Dec 03, 2022 Dec 03, 2022

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Try to use the arrow keys once an image is highlighted to move it small amounts, it helps.

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