Created attachment 186536 [details] Pattern for drawing 7 sided regular polygon by connecting intersections of lines with circle. It would be nice to be able to snap to an intersection of two lines. For example, the intersection of the circumference of a circle and a line running from the center of the circle to a point beyond the circle.
So your usecase would be to convert an ellipse to a polygon with nodes limited to where line objects intersect the ellipse? I have not found a way to achieve the same, but seems like a pretty niche action. Maybe limiting the enhancement request to "add nodes at segment intersections" is more realistic. Related: https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/create-a-polygon-form-line-intersection-draw/8358 Or is you issue about converting _anything_ into Snap Guides, including ellipses and lines, instead of only having vertical and horizontal guides like currently?
(In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #1) > So your usecase would be to convert an ellipse to a polygon with nodes > limited to where line objects intersect the ellipse? > > I have not found a way to achieve the same, but seems like a pretty niche > action. > Maybe limiting the enhancement request to "add nodes at segment > intersections" is more realistic. > > Related: > https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/create-a-polygon-form-line-intersection-draw/ > 8358 > > Or is you issue about converting _anything_ into Snap Guides, including > ellipses and lines, instead of only having vertical and horizontal guides > like currently? Line segments of a polyline already have nodes where they meet. Being able to add nodes where two separate objects cross would be a nice feature. Then, a snap to nodes rather than a more general snap to object border would be a great addition.
CorelDRAW provides a different method that helps to guide the placement of nodes or points when using a polyline or curve (Bezier) tool. Cues (similar to tool tips) appear to indicate when the mouse pointer is over an edge of another object, a node of another object, an intersection, or a quadrant. This might be a better approach that trying to snap to intersection.
(In reply to Don Matschull from comment #0) > It would be nice to be able to snap to an intersection of two lines. The snap point is not an attribute of objects. How would the layer knows about lines or intersections?
Resolving since there is no response; similar request maybe in bug 147542