Shifting Drawings with the Shift and Trace Tool

With the Shift and Trace tool, you can temporarily move, rotate and scale drawings. By default, the Shift and Trace tool will work on the drawing at the current frame. However, you can offset another drawing appearing in the Onion Skin, allowing you to shift the drawing you want to trace without having to select it, and you can even select multiple drawings and shift them together.

The simplest way to shift drawings is to shift the current drawing. When you select a drawing in the Timeline or Xsheet view, the Shift and Trace tool is already ready to move and transform this drawing. When using this method, you have to select the drawing you want to shift, shift it, then select the drawing you want to draw on and start tracing.

Another approach is to use the Shift and Trace tool move drawings before or after the current drawing. When using this method, you can start by selecting the drawing you want to draw on, shift the drawing you want to trace over in the right position, and start tracing right away.

At last, if you need to shift several drawings simultaneously, you can select several drawings with the Shift and Trace tool and transform them together.