Can't cut 45° with knife tool

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OS X 10.10.5, Glyphs Version 2.2.2 (824)

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do you mean you like snapping at 45° or that it is not cutting if you try to cut at that angel?

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It just wont snap into the 45° angle when I press shift like it used to while having the knife tool on.

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There was never any 45 degree snapping.

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mhm maybe there could be custom parameters of different angles beyond the normal ones that can be used for the snapping … since its based on the font how u may want to cut of terminal endings at specific angles it maybe be useful?

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Would be quite useful, indeed.

Right now I always measure the angle before each cut.

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Georg, how is that secret feature developing? That sounds like the solution here.

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I do this:

  1. just cut any old way
  2. move one of the two nodes into a desired position
  3. move a prepared (global) guideline onto the node
  4. snap the other node onto the guideline

But honestly, I need this very, very rarely. I use corner and cap components for recreating certain structures. I would like to see the situation where precise angle-cutting is necessary. Can someone send me a case?