Exporting and Importing Drawing Guides

You can export drawing guides from the current scene into a file, then and import them into another scene.

  1. In the Guides view, select one or multiple guides from the list.

    TIPS
    • You can select multiple guides by holding the Ctrl (Windows) or ⌘ (macOS) key and clicking on each guide you want to select.
    • You can select a series of guide by holding the Shift key, clicking on the first guide you want to select, then clicking on the last guide you want to select. Every guide in-between will also be selected.
  1. In the Guides view, click on the Menu button and select Export Selected Guides.
  1. In the Export Guides dialog box that appears, choose a destination folder, type in the name of the file you want to export, then click on Save.

The selected guides are exported to the destination file. A confirmation dialog box displays the amount of guides that were exported.

  1. In the Timeline or Thumbnail view, select the destination panel.
  1. In the Guides view, click on the Menu button and select Import Guides.
  1. In the Import Guides dialog box that appears, browse to the folder in which you exported your guides, select the file in which you exported your guides and click on Open.

The guides that were stored in the file are inserted at the bottom of the guides list. A confirmation dialog box displays the amount of guides that were imported.

NOTE When importing a list of guides, duplicate guides are filtered out to avoid cluttering the list. The confirmation dialog box will specify if duplicates were detected and filtered out.