Doc:Guides

Guides

Guides are horizontal or vertical lines that you can add to your canvases to help you to position items precisely. They won't appear in your finished animations, but they will be saved with your documents. Each canvas has its own set of guides.

Appearance

Guides look like this in the canvas window:

As you can see above, they appear as blue dashed lines that extend across your working area to the edges of the canvas window.

Adding guides to your canvases

There are two ways to add guides to your canvases:

Dragging from the rulers

You can add a horizontal guide by moving your mouse over the horizontal ruler at the top of the canvas window, holding down the left mouse button and then dragging your mouse downwards. When you release the left mouse button the guide will be placed on your canvas.

You can add a vertical guide by moving your mouse over the vertical ruler at the left of the canvas window, holding down the left mouse button and then dragging your mouse to the right. When you release the left mouse button the guide will be placed on your canvas.

Removing guides from your canvases

1. Dragging from the rulers
2. Using the canvas Meta Data panel

Positioning guides precisely

1. Using the info panel
2. Using the canvas Meta Data panel

Showing or hiding guides

There are two ways to position your guides precisely. You can use the Info Panel to position your guides, or you can enter a precise position in the Canvas Meta Data panel.

1. Using info panel
2. Using the canvas Meta Data panel

Snapping

1. Using info panel
2. Using the canvas Meta Data panel