Align question

[David O'Neil]

Magnetic snapping works on the thing under the mouse pointer so to snap corners you must drag one corner onto another.

When I select near the corner of a rectangle, Xtreme selects the pixel of the rectangle under the cursor, not the corner of the box. When you are at a low zoom resolution, you often don't realize it until you zoom in to the place of the edges you tried to mate. Regardless of whether they are corners or edges, they almost never line up as I expect them to. Am I doing something wrong?

[steve.ledger]

Works just as described by PhilM:



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[David O'Neil]

Actually, it doesn't always. But your video helped me realize that that is due to the magnetic snap radii settings being set too small in the options. Snapping is a frustrating experience until you figure that out.

Thank you, and I hope this helps others.

[DanDaBear]

If the rectangles are all the same width, create one, duplicate it twice (so you have 3) and resize one x10 (IE, if the original is 100 px wide, make the duplicate 1000) align the two smaller rectangles to the far ends of the longer rectangle and blend them, change the steps to 8! slect arrange, join shapes then arrange break shapes. discard longer rectangle.

[AntonM]

Johan, I think you're wanting a "pack together" feature.

I raised this as a possible wish-list item a while ago (see this thread), and I would still like to see it being available in the Align menu, perhaps one day .

[johan-v]

Hello,

The pack together is exactly what I was hoping to find.

regards,

Johan

[Sadler]

It may not be perfectly accurate but for my needs this quick methods suits most of the time:

Select object.
Grab the left size handle.
Hold down CTRL.
Drag right to create one reflected shape.
Right click to create a copy.
Repeat as necessary. (or select multiple shapes and do it for longer arrays)

Limited, perhaps, in that you must have symmetrical shapes.