inkscape-user-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net schrieb am 15.11.2007 21:59:00:
On Nov 15, 2007 3:35 PM, Diederik van Lierop <mail@...2312...> wrote:
This is new to me, but it looks like it simply aligns vertically/horizontally to the boundingbox of objects at any distance, am I correct? Such a thing is not supported by the current snapping framework, but it shouldn't be too difficult to implement. If implemented, it will need a key binding though to easily turn this on/off because otherwise it will get annoying.
IMHO the key thing here is not just snapping to extensions of bbox, but _visualizing_ what it is that you snap to. In AI, it flashes the snap line when it snaps. We need to add infrastructure that would enable such displays when snapping, then smart guides will be easy.
This kind of "visual-snapping" is exactly what I´ve been missing in Inkscape. Here is the way I make use of it in AI: In the layer below I have a complex technical drawing (origninating from dxf CAD 3D-data). In the layer above I can intuitively and quickly redraw parts and outlines of the drawing by "visual-snapping". It prooves very very helpful to "convert" 3D CAD-technical drawings. Have you planned to implement this in Inkcape 0.46?
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