Hi Chris and Everyone,
Sorry to be a bit late to this discussion. But this seems important
enough to mention, even late.
Even though you now have discovered the snap controls, you might still
be unable to disable snapping to cusp/corner nodes completely . For some reason
which I don't know, Inkscape is confused about the difference between
cusp/corner nodes and smooth nodes, where snapping is concerned.
I made this bug report when I discovered it:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1443707
Since then, I've seen it happen countless times where I can't snap to a smooth
node unless both smooth and corner/cusp snapping are enabled. Or the same goes
for corner/cusp nodes -- they might not necessarily snap unless both node types
are enabled for snapping. Also, sometimes the snap notification is wrong. For
example if you just snapped to a smooth node, it might say it snapped to
corner/cusp (or vice versa).
I haven't tested, but I would assume the reverse must be true, that even
if you have disabled snapping to cusp/corner nodes, they might still snap if you
still have smooth node snapping enabled.
There are some ways to help control snapping, which are not entirely
obvious to newbies. The best tip I can give to newbies, is never to have every
snap option enabled at the same time. Because then everything will want to snap
to everything else, and there's no way to control it. Double-triple chaos if
there's a grid!!
My next best tip is to use the option (in Inkscape Preferences) which
goes something like "only snap nodes closest to pointer". Then you can grab the
object nearby to the node that you want to snap, and only that node will be
available to snap.
And there are some more tips, and options you can tweak, to get even
more control over snapping! Just explain details about what the problem is that
you want to avoid, and we can chime in with some more tricks.
Snapping is the BEST feature, once you learn how to control it
effectively! (Thanks Diederik!!) Omg, when I first started to learn Inkscape,
there was no such thing as snapping -- now, I can't imagine using Inkscape,
without snapping!
All best,
brynn
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Tooley
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 12:53 PM
To: Inkscape User Community
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Completely disable snap to cusp
Excellent, I hadn't noticed that before, thanks everyone!
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 10:16 AM, Christoph Raab <***@raab.io> wrote:
Hi Chris,
you might have to go to View -> Show/Hide -> Snap Controls Bar to see this
button.
Best,
Chris
On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 6:12 PM Chris Tooley <***@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all,
I am attempting to do precise vector modification and I keep getting "snap to
cusp" sort of thing happening which is *not* what I want. How do I completely
disable this? I seem to recall trying to figure this out a long time ago and not
being successful, and it's super irritating :)
I can see where I can change the snap delay but that's not adequate. I would
prefer if it was a checkbox to enable/disable snapping?
I am comfortable with editing a preferences file in the CLI if necessary.
Thanks,
Chris
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