Snapping seems to work fine for me on 0.47. You should make sure you’ve got snapping enabled along with ‘snap bounding box corners’ and ‘snap to edges’. For some reason you have to have the corners setting enabled to enable the ‘edges’. Doesn’t make sense to me. But here’s a screenshot of what I mean: http://imagebin.ca/view/XU6mkdZa.html

Of course you might have done all this and still it doesn’t work right. In that case I’m probably not much help (as usual).

I’m on build 0.47+devel r9541. I’m not seeing the same behavior. I’m snapping two squares together with the bounding box snap. No overlapping. It seems to behave as it should. Have you tried turning off all snap options and one by one flipping them on to see what works? Maybe if snapping isn’t working then you could opt to use Align and Distribute instead.

I have a question that I can’t seem to find an answer for on the net. Snapping is new to me, and when I try to snap two object edges together, the objects overlap instead of snapping edge to edge.

I’m running Inkscape 0.48 that a friend compiled for me. (Don’t know if that’s the reason.)

Any ideas or advice?

Thanks!