Hi!

I am using Inkscape 0.92.3 running under Windows 7 Pro, 64-bit, Service Pak 1.

When one snaps a thin rectangle (0.10” h) to a guide, does it position the rectangle above the guide? Below the guide? Or, centered on the guide?

Thank you!

Dr. T

AfaIk the nodes will snap to the guides whatever alignment for the border/contour is set.
If you use "Transformation" (shift+ctrl+M) the border width will make it into account.

Cheers

A guide has no width, if that's what you mean. It's a one-dimensional line.

You can select which point on the rectangle you want to snap to the guide by choosing the corresponding settings in the snap controls bar.

See also https://inkscape.org/~Moini/%E2%98%85sn ... and-higher

The Guides aren't really part of the drawing, in the sense that they will show up in the finished image. You can only see and use them in Inkscape.

Also, they aren't visually precise on the canvas. If you watch closely, and especially while zooming, you can see that a guide set at some particular value will not necessarily look like it's in the center of a straight path lying on the same coordinate. Same thing happens with grids. They're just there as general guides, so their visual appearance is not necessarily precise. If you need precision, you need to set them specifically where you want (double-click on a guide to open a small dialog where you can set the values). They may not look like they're what you set, but they don't need to, to still work for you.