Adobe illustrator 10 Manuale Utente

Smart Guides are temporary, “snap to” guides that help you create, align, edit, and 
transform objects relative to other objects. You can also use Smart Guides when rotating, 
scaling, and shearing objects. Objects can snap to locked objects and objects on locked 
layers.

You choose the point on the selected object at which you want to snap by selecting the 
object at that point. Illustrator determines additional points on artwork to create guides 
and snapping points. These points are determined by the last objects the cursor has 
passed over with the selected object.

You can create intersecting Smart Guides by passing over two Smart Guide lines, and then 
moving your selected object to the intersection point. 

As you create, align, move, edit, and transform objects, Smart Guides appear from any 
anchor point on a nearby object over which the pointer recently passed. The direction, 
angle, tolerance, and appearance of Smart Guides are determined by settings in 
Preferences.

To turn Smart Guides on or off, choose View > Smart Guides. A check mark appears next to 
the command when Smart Guides are turned on. 

1 Choose Edit > Preferences > Smart Guides (Windows and Mac OS 9) or Illustrator > 
Preferences > Smart Guides (Mac OS X).

2 Specify options for Smart Guides:

Select Text Label Hints to display information about the position the cursor is currently 

snapped to (such as center) as you manipulate the cursor. 

Select Construction Guides to see guidelines in the file as you use Smart Guides.

Select Transform Tools to have Smart Guides help when you scale, rotate, and shear 

objects.

Select Object Highlighting to highlight the object below the pointer as you drag 

around it. 

3 Click a text box and set an angle at which you want guide lines drawn from the anchor 
points of a nearby object (the preview reflects your settings). You can set up to six angles. 
Do one of the following:

Enter an angle in the selected Angles text box. 

Choose a set of angles from the Angles pop-up menu.

Choose a set of angles from the pop-up menu and change one of the values in the text 

box to customize a set of angles.

4 Type a value in the Snapping Tolerance text box to specify the number of points the 
pointer must be from another object for Smart Guides to take effect. Then click OK.