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 document. Each canvas has its own set of guides.

Appearance

Guides look like this on 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:

i) Dragging from the rulers ii) Using the canvas Meta Data panel

Positioning guides precisely

i) Using the info panel ii) Using the canvas Meta Data panel

Showing or hiding guides

There are two ways to show or hide guides

i) Using info panel ii) Using the canvas Meta Data panel

Snapping

i) Using info panel ii) Using the canvas Meta Data panel