Is there more detailed information some where to learn more about how the snaps actually work? I have searched through the tutorials. I am guessing the manual is not current. I have been playing around with snaps and haven't found any of it to be clean or obvious. grid snap works but none of the others appear to work. I have decades of experience with high end professional CAD apps. They all have great snap functions.
Beyond the Basics Make a figure snap on two guides with different angle
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Here is a practical problem I ran into as I was supposed to draw up a triangle (for a math problem).
So I have a line and two guides. The guides have different angle to each other and have arbitrary angle to the document orientation.
The line segment also have an arbitrary angle to the document and to each of the guides.
The practical problem - how to get the line to snap to both guides?
The guides cannot be altered and the line itself is only allowed to mode around (no scaling, rotation, etc operation).
Maybe this?
Ah- thank you, @TylerDurden for a very clever solution 😎
Is there more detailed information some where to learn more about how the snaps actually work? I have searched through the tutorials. I am guessing the manual is not current. I have been playing around with snaps and haven't found any of it to be clean or obvious. grid snap works but none of the others appear to work. I have decades of experience with high end professional CAD apps. They all have great snap functions.
While it's not 100% up to date, the manual is a good place to start.
http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL/html/Snapping.html
Thanks Tyler
Other good references (not specifically for, but including snapping) are the release notes. I'd start with V.91: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-0.91/?latest=1
Your help is much appreciated. The practice stuff in the manual is great. I was completely missing the guidelines. BIG improvement!