- Modules
- Background Layout Using Drawing Guides in Harmony
- Locking Drawing Strokes to a Specific Axis
Locking Drawing Strokes to a Specific Axis
5 mins
Intermediate
T-LAY-001A-010
When using a drawing guide, your drawing tool with lock onto one of its axes based on the initial direction of your drawing stroke. In some situations, it may be hard for the tool to lock onto the expected guide axis. To remedy this, it is possible to manually select which axis you want to lock your drawing strokes to.
How to lock your drawing tool to a specific axis
- Set the focus to the
- Press the Left Arrow or Right Arrow key repeatedly to cycle through your guide's axes. The selected axis will be displayed in bold across your mouse cursor.
All your drawing strokes will lock onto the selected axis.
How to re-enable using all axes
- Press the Left Arrow or Right Arrow key repeatedly to cycle through your guide's axes, until none of them are displayed in bold across your mouse cursor.
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Activity 1: Creating a One Point Perspective Layout Using Guides
Topics List
- About Drawing Guides
- Adding Drawing Guides
- Deleting Drawing Guides
- Copying Drawing Guides
- Editing Drawing Guides
- Drawing with Drawing Guides
- Viewing Drawing Guide Reference Lines
- Preventing the Editing of Drawing Guides
- Enabling and Disabling Drawing Guides
- Locking Drawing Strokes to a Specific Axis
- Activity 1: Creating a One Point Perspective Layout Using Guides
- Activity 2: Creating a Two Point Perspective Layout Using Guides
- Activity 3: Creating a Three Point Perspective Layout Using Guides