I have many complex polygons (in my case all edges are axis-aligned), which I need to manually align with script-generated guides (purple) further away in the other direction, so it ends up at the end of the blue arrow:
When I drag the midpoint of an edge, in v6.0 it used to only drag in the perpendicular direction (blue arrow), but in v7.0 it drags freely. I turned on “Contrain actions to H, V, 45 degrees”. At least it’s better, but doesn’t do what I want. As seen in the image, when I drag the edge (circular dot) to my guide (via green dotted line), it snaps to the closest 45° line (brown) instead of the end of the blue arrow where I need it to be.
Is this permanently changed behavior or is there a setting that I can flip?
When i set the step angle to 90° in the settings, it doesn’t move 45°. See image
If this options does not work, you can set the cursor to a window filling cross. This way you can see when it is aligned even when the cursor is only moved horizontally (so the polygon is only extended horizontally).
I’m not sure if it is what you want, but switching off “Constraint actions to H,V,45” should avoid snapping at the 45° line.
Shift+Space is default hotkey for it and I use it frequently when editing my complicated zones.