# Better snap to items when starting a shape

**URL:** <https://community.penpot.app/t/better-snap-to-items-when-starting-a-shape/4893>\
**Category:** Help us improve Penpot\
**Created:** [April 8, 2024, 10:53am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/better-snap-to-items-when-starting-a-shape/4893 "2024-04-08T10:53:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![hza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f04885/32.png) [@hza](https://community.penpot.app/u/hza)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 10:53am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/better-snap-to-items-when-starting-a-shape/4893/1 "2024-04-08T10:53:34Z")

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I think most of the time the snapping is amazing and works as expected. Eg: when resizing rectangle, etc

The one notable exception is the initial click and drag when starting to create a new shape. That just won’t snap to the corect item. It feels like it’s impossible to get it to snap to anything. It’s funny that when I resize the item it snaps happily, so perhaps it’s an easy fix.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![madalenam](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/madalenam/32/4024_2.png) [@madalenam](https://community.penpot.app/u/madalenam)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2024, 2:11pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/better-snap-to-items-when-starting-a-shape/4893/2 "2024-04-08T14:11:05Z")

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Hi @hza,

Thank you for the suggestion 🙂

We have a user story already in our backlog to look into improving this but it hasn’t been prioritized yet, you can find the details [here](https://tree.taiga.io/project/penpot/us/3052?backlog-q=3052&no-milestone=1).

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**Author:** ![stairjoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@stairjoke](https://community.penpot.app/u/stairjoke)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2026, 9:40am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/better-snap-to-items-when-starting-a-shape/4893/3 "2026-01-26T09:40:09Z")

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I’d like to bump this one with an “I’m interested too”. Especially snapping guides to existing layers would help immensely. I often block out a layout using rectangles, then move guides to their edges and delete the rectangles.