Enabling guide snapping

Enabling guide-snapping means all guidelines and guide objects become magnetic. Dragging a handle or object near a guide then snaps it to the guide.

To enable guide snapping

1. From the Window menu, choose Snap to Guides.

Tips

You can also enable guide snapping by pressing 2 on the numeric keypad.

A magnet by the mouse pointer shows when an object is within snapping distance of the guide.

You can change the snapping distance. See Changing the magnetic snapping distances.

Optionally, you can also snap to objects in regular layers. See Enabling object snapping.

Optionally you also snap to points on the on-screen grid. See Enabling grid snapping.

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Related Topics

Guides