Yet another inkscape question

[JimErn]

Somehow, and darned if I know how, inkscape now opens with "snap to" set to on.  I know how to turn it off.

What I can not find in preferences is how to set the default to off, anyone know?

[Foxfold]

Never found the permanent 'off' switch for the 'snap' but I just turn it off whenever I'm doing something.

[Fab4]

Hi Jim
Does this help at all

Steps

1. Go to File >> Document Properties and click on the Snap tab.
2. Select 'Snap only when closer than:'. If it is already selected, leave it selected.
3. Once you have checked it, close the Document Properties.
4. Go to File >> Inkscape preferences and then locate the Snapping option. ...
5. Use your snapping tool in Inkscape.

Fab4

[JimErn]

11 minutes ago, Fab4 said:

Hi Jim
Does this help at all

Steps

1. Go to File >> Document Properties and click on the Snap tab.
2. Select 'Snap only when closer than:'. If it is already selected, leave it selected.
3. Once you have checked it, close the Document Properties.
4. Go to File >> Inkscape preferences and then locate the Snapping option. ...
5. Use your snapping tool in Inkscape.

Fab4

No joy, all my settings were as you mentioned.

 

But I did fix it.  I went to C:\Program Files\Inkscape\share\templates

and right clicked on the default.svg file and opened with inkscape

turned off snap to

then file>save and it told me it could not save it, so I saved it on the desktop and closed inkscape

open win explorer, go to the templates folder renamed the default.svg file to default-old.svg and then moved the desktop defualt.svg file to the folder

when I reopened inscape, snap to was disabled - yeah!

[Fab4]

Hi Jim

Glad to hear you got it fixed - This will be one to remember - Thanks
Fab4

[don in brooklin on]

Thanks for the tip.

Worked great.  I set my page size to US letter and the display units to inches at same time.

Fantastic tip

Thanks again\