Guides View

The Guides view enables you to manage drawing guides for a given storyboard panel. Use Drawing Guides to assist you in creating a drawing with perspective.

Guides can be added, selected, renamed, deleted, cut, copied, pasted and reordered. Guides can also be exported to a file and re-imported later.

NOTE: For a description on how to use Drawing Guides, refer to About Drawing Guides
Icon Name Description
Options
Enable Guide Enables or disables drawing guides.
Align with Guide

When enabled:

  • The Brush, Pencil, Line and (optionally) Eraser tools are constrained by the Drawing Guide to draw/erase straight lines only.

When disabled:

  • The drawing tools are not constrained by the Drawing Guide, allowing you to do freehand strokes. The guide acts as a visual aid only.
Lock Guide Locks the editing of a Drawing Guide to prevent its accidental modification while drawing.
Enable Guide with Eraser Toggles the use of Drawing Guides with the Eraser tool.
Full Cursor Display

When enabled:

  • Drawing Guide axes extend to the edge of the drawing area.

When disabled:

  • Drawing Guide axes are short.
  • Drawing Guide axes disappear while drawing a stroke.
Show Reference Lines Toggles the display of a visual reference consisting of lines that converge towards the vanishing point(s).
  Number of Lines

Adjusts the amount of reference lines to display.

Guides List
New Guide

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

  • Square grid
  • 1-point perspective
  • 2-point perspective
  • 3-point perspective (bird’s eye view)
  • 3-point perspective (worm’s eye view)
Delete Guide Deletes the selected Drawing Guide(s) from the panel'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 Guide(s) from the list and adds it to the clipboard.
 

Copy

Copies the selected Drawing Guide(s) to the clipboard.
 

Paste

Pastes Drawing Guide(s) from the clipboard to the panel's guides list. Pasted guides are inserted under the selected guide.
 

Import Guides

Imports Drawing Guides from a source file and inserts them at the bottom of the panel's guides list. Duplicate guides are filtered out to avoid cluttering the list.
 

Export Selected Guides

Exports the selected Drawing Guide(s) to a destination file.
  Drawing Guides List

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