: How to snap an object over another object Hi I'm using Adobe Illustrator can someone please help me, I'm trying to snap an object to the edge of another object. But instead its snapping a

@Phylliss782

It looks like the two objects (The face of the B, not the extrude) and the highlight can just simply be lined up with the Align Tab.


Using the White Arrow, click the highlight.
Hold shift, click the face of the B
Use the Black Arrow and click the face of the B again (it should get a thicker selection around it, this means it is the object that everything will be aligned to)
In the Align Tab, make sure that Align To is set to Selection. (If you cannot see this, click Show Options in the tab).
Click Align Horizontal Right
Click Align Vertical Top


I stopped trying to do much alignment by hand a long time ago. I try to use the Align tab as much as I can now. It won’t always be applicable, but in this case it will work.

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@Frith110

When snapping an object to another I find that using 'Smart Guides' is the easiest way.
This feature highlights possible ways that the object you are moving might align with or snap to other objects on your page. It does this by showing pink lines between the objects.


Turn on Smart Guides by pressing Control/Cmd + U or in 'View' menu select 'Smart Guides'

In your example, try dragging the white shape by grabbing its top left corner and snapping to the inner corner of the yellow shape.

If you need to snap a vertex of one object to a non-horizontal/vertical edge of another object, you may find that it will not snap where you expect. In this situation, press Control/Cmd when dragging. This will force Smart Guides to align/snap from the vertex.

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@Becky351

Check, if you have forgotten to disable Snap to grid or to activate snapping to point. Snap to point is the way to go, when everything is not arranged along the predefined rectangular grid.

If you drag the object keeping the mouse cursor on some point of its outline curve, just that point will snap to an anchor point of another object (=a node in objects outline curve). The cursor changes it's color, if there is a valid anchor point near enough.

If there is no anchor point in the right place, you should insert one to the object outline, which is wanted to be reached exactly.

The max snapping distance can be given in preferences on subpage Selection & Anchor display. The distance limit is given as screen pixels.

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