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For some reason, the smart guides have stopped working. Haven't done any changes and have updated the Illustrator too. Please help as its supper annoying.
This was very frustrating when it happened to me just today.
Disable "Snap to Point" and "Snap to Grid" in your view menu. This should fix it.
Be sure of course "View>Smart Guides" is enabled, obviously you've done that.
Go to Preferences>Smart Guides and be sure you have them set as you like, obviously you've done that.
I was having this problem, too. EXTREMELY annoying. Turned out “Smart Guides” was checked in my “View” menu even though it wasn’t actually enabled. I selected the “Smart Guide” menu item to turn it “off” and it remained checked. I toggled it again, this time it became unchecked. I toggled it again — checked. And now it works. WHA. I can’t recall what all menu items were behaving similarly, but Smart Guides wasn’t the only item that was checked but not actually enabled. Seems to be a weird buggy
...This just happened to me. Tried all sorts of 'fixes’: no luck. Then I discovered that Preferences>Smart Guides>Snapping Tolerance was set to 0. When I reset it to 1, my smart guides returned.
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This just happened to me. Tried all sorts of 'fixes’: no luck. Then I discovered that Preferences>Smart Guides>Snapping Tolerance was set to 0. When I reset it to 1, my smart guides returned.
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okay I know it's been a few years since this problem was posted but I found a solution and I'd like to post it in case others are having the same issue with no resolution. I tried all the things mentioned here, and then I switched to overprint preview and that's what brought back my smart guides! I'm not sure why, but maybe it forces illustrator to recalibrate or something.
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