Forum: Inkscape Snap problem

This is something I've been meaning to comment of for ages :?

I've been in the habit of grouping objects for schematic components
then surrounding them with an invisible bounding box (thinnest possible
line with no colour) that is 1mm grid aligned.

This has worked perfectly on older versions of Inkscape so I could
quickly and precisely position these objects. However with 0.47 the snap
behaviour has become extremely difficult to handle. It seems now that
every single point in the object will try to act as a snap focus and
accurate positioning is a nightmare :(

Can anyone suggest a way to get bounding box only snapping?

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Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.

On 01/25/2010 09:34 PM, Abrolag wrote:
> Can anyone suggest a way to get bounding box only snapping?
>    

When looking at the snap toolbar, the first two buttons must be enabled,
and some of the next four or last three buttons should be enabled too.
Have you set things up like that?

Diederik

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:43:04 +0100
Diederik van Lierop <mail@diedenrezi.nl> wrote:

> On 01/25/2010 09:34 PM, Abrolag wrote:
> > Can anyone suggest a way to get bounding box only snapping?
> >    
> 
> When looking at the snap toolbar, the first two buttons must be enabled, 
> and some of the next four or last three buttons should be enabled too. 
> Have you set things up like that?
> 
> Diederik

That was quick :o

Good call. It's not a toolbar I've used (or even noticed much), but the
problem wasn't the failure to select those options, but that every
single one was selected! I've no idea how that happened.

--
Will J Godfrey
http://www.musically.me.uk
Say you have a poem and I have a tune.
Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song.