Has anyone else had this problem? I am running Corel Draw X3 in Vista Ultimate and I cannot snap objects centers (centres) to guidelines. I am pretty sure I could do this with previous versions. Any clues?

At the risk of asking a silly question, you do have "snap to guidelines" and not just "snap to objects" switched on dont you?

Sorry for the delay in answering. My login broke.

Yes "Snap to guidlines" is switched on. While dragging objects across guidlines they snap to the sides, top and bottom, and even to the present cursor position. I can see confirmation because the guidline goes bold. However I just cannot get the center (centre) of objects to snap to the guidlines.

Maybe this is the Twilight Zone! I am sure I could do this before?!?

First snap the pointer (cursor) to a snap point in the object (the Center), and then snap the object to the guideline.

Make sure that 'Snap to Objects', or 'Dynamic Guides', is enabled.

Thanks Ahmad,

The solution came through on another conversation. The bit I was missing was to have Show Snap location marks ticked in the Snap to Objects setup dialogue box. I also need to have both Snap to Objects and Snap to Guidlines switched on, even though I only want to snap to guidlines. I need to have Snap to Objects switched on otherwise I cannot see any snap location marks. This is really odd logic.

It's not a perfect solution. If there are other objects around the object I am trying to move snaps all over the place and it can be quite difficult to make it snap to a guideline.

However I can work around this oddity.

If you want to snap primary elements (nodes, cursor, bounding box, interactive markers, special nodes, text baselines, text glyphs…) to guidelines, just enable 'Snap to Guidelines'.

If you want to snap certain snapping modes (Center, Quadrant, Tangent, Midpoint…) to guidelines, enable 'Snap to Guidelines' and 'Snap to Objects' (or 'Dynamic Guides').

So maybe this is to give you like Normal and Advanced modes; more control over your application. What do you think?

I always keep the magical Dynamic Guides enabled. When I need Guidelines in my drawing, I have to enable Snap to Guidelines.

pcameron:

If there are other objects around the object I am trying to move snaps all over the place and it can be quite difficult to make it snap to a guideline.

pcameron:

While dragging objects across guidlines they snap to the sides, top and bottom, and even to the present cursor position.

Thank you pcameron, I'll keep the "Show Snap location marks" in my mind.

Hi pcameron,

You want to enable the Snap to Guidelines, and get all snapping modes for the selected object. So you can snap them to guidelines; without snapping to all objects around.

Makes Logic :)

See this related thread.