Guides View

The Guides view allows you to add drawing guides to the current scene, to select which guide to use, to manage existing guides, to export and import guides and to enable or disable drawing guides as well as their various options.

NOTE For more information on each type of guide and how to use them, see About Drawing Guides.
Icon Name Description
Options
Enable Guide Enables or disables drawing guides. When guides are disabled, they are not visible and you cannot edit them or use them with drawing tools.
Align with Guide

When enabled, when drawing with the Brush, Pencil, Stroke and Line tools tool, the cursor is automatically locked against the axis of the currently selected guide that most closely matches the angle of your stroke, as if you were drawing against a rule.

When disabled, the drawing tools are not constrained by the axes of the guide, allowing you to draw freely. The guide's axes act as a visual aids only.

Lock Guide When enabled, you cannot do modifications on the currently selected guide. This prevents making unwanted modifications to the guide when drawing.
Enable Guide with Eraser Allows you to use the Eraser tool with drawing guides.
Full Cursor Display

When enabled, the guide's axes that go through the mouse cursor in the drawing space go throughout the entire drawing space and display even when you're drawing.

When disabled, the guide's axes that go through the mouse cursor only display over a short distance from the mouse cursor. Also, the guide's axes disappear when drawing a stroke.

Show Reference Lines When enabled, semi-transparent reference lines for each of the currently selected guide's axes appear all over your drawing space.
  Number of Lines

Adjusts the amount of reference lines to display in your drawing space.

Guides List
New Guide

Allows you to add a guide to the scene's guides list. You can add a guide of one of the following types:

  • Ruler
  • Square Grid
  • Isometric Perspective
  • 1-Point Perspective
  • 2-Point Perspective
  • 3-Point Perspective (Bird’s-Eye View)
  • 3-Point Perspective (Worm’s-Eye View)
  • 3-Point Perspective (Horizontal Pan)
  • 3-Point Perspective (Vertical Pan)
  • 4-Point Continuous Perspective
  • 4-Point Perspective (Vertical Pan)
  • 5-Point Perspective (Fisheye)
NOTE For more information on each type of guide and how to use them, see About Drawing Guides.
Delete Guide Deletes the selected drawing guides from the scene's guides list.
Guides View Menu Opens a menu with the following commands:
 

Rename Guide

Renames the selected drawing guide.
 

Cut

Cuts the selected drawing guides from the list and adds them to the clipboard.
 

Copy

Copies the selected drawing guides to the clipboard.
 

Paste

Pastes drawing guides from the clipboard to the current scene's guides list. Pasted guides are inserted under the selected guide.
 

Import Guides

Imports drawing guides that were previously exported to a file and inserts them at the bottom of the scene's guides list. Duplicate guides are filtered out to avoid cluttering the list.
 

Export Selected Guides

Exports the selected drawing guides into a file.
  Drawing Guides List

Displays the scene's list of guides and allows you to select which guide to display, edit and use.