How does one get pen to snap to guide and guide snap to pen ?

Hi,

I have two rectangles, each missing one side, such that when I bring them TOGETHER, SO THEY TOUCH ON THE ENDS, that is the shape I need.

e.g I trace the top left and bottom of the left page of a book, I then trace the top right side and bottom of the right page of the same book, I bring the two traces together , I dont want to go adding extra to the pages by having them near each other and click forming a line between them, so adding lets say an inch more at book middle,  they join at the book centre seam, but how do I get them to join to become a closed path ? just like you might bring your left finger tips together to touch the right finger tips., and use superglue to join them together !

Not sure what all the coding was for, I am not into coding or drawing with such.

Actual job was a cross with an ornate end to each arm , all 4 the same, draw the first arm, copy paste it rotate 90deg and again and again, I have four arms, bring them together and need to 'superglue' the ends together  to get a closed path cross with its 4 ornate ends.

The pen tool is there to be used, and it did the job well, just need to fuse/weld/superglue the four paths together.

I dont have Illustrator, never any need for it, certainly no need for it if having to pay so much a month and not use it for 99% of the year. I do 3D CAD work, that does me for my vector work. far more advanced than Illustrator, and Illustrator is long winded versus Freehand which Adobe killed when it was better, and its still missed, but CAD makes both seem archaic for basic drawing, though it lacks cmyk colour work, and graphical colour commands.

and snapping... i click the pen tool a few times, I drag out a guide and it doesnt snap to any of the nodes.

why not ?

Merlin

Hi,

CS6

I do have snaps turned on. and snap to guides was ticked.

If I drag a guide out, I cant drag a path node to snap to it.

if I have a path node, I cant drag a guide out to snap to it.

With the joining, I meant once having deleted the path from the end of the first and second rectangles, and thanks for showing how that is done,  move them together so the nodes intersect (i.e. are perfectly aligned with each other, forming a new larger rectangle, how does one joint the two halves together. if this was CAD one would select both shapes and go join and it would say two paths joined as one closed curve.

The article doesnt mention how to have two paths dragged together so the ends touch and joining them, unless I missed reading that somewhere.

ALSO... I have found when drawing with pen it snaps to pixel corners only. Sometimes I dont want this, HOWEVER having scaled down a set of rectangles drawn as such, and copy pasted them to another file, it wont position to the pixels, its part of a pixel out. Taking one rectangle incase its due to the entire combined shape not being able to snap, I cant even get its top edge to snap to pixel.

If I draw alongside it that snaps to pixel so pixel snap is working.

Cheers

Merlin