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- Viewing Drawing Guide Reference Lines
Viewing Drawing Guide Reference Lines
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By default, a guide will only display its horizon line, its vanishing point, and its axes relative to your mouse cursor's position. To help you lay out the objects in your drawing, you can also enable reference lines. Reference lines are multiple semi-transparent lines that are drawn in parallel to your axes and from your vanishing points, at an equal distance or angle from each other, to cover your entire drawing space with visual guides.
When using reference lines, you can decide the amount of lines that display in your drawing space. If you have too many reference lines, they will be very close to each other and your drawing space might feel cluttered, but if you have too few, you might not always have a reference line close enough to the stroke you wish to draw to help serve as a reference.
How to view Drawing Guide Reference lines
- In the Guides view, activate the Show Reference Lines
button
The reference lines appear as a semi-transparent overlay.
- In the Guides view, use the Number of Lines slider to adjust the line density.
Time Estimated 5 mins
Difficulty Level Intermediate
Topics List
- About Drawing Guides
- Adding Drawing Guides
- Deleting Drawing Guides
- Copying Drawing Guides
- Editing Drawing Guides
- Drawing Backgound Layouts with Drawing Guides
- Viewing Drawing Guide Reference Lines
- Preventing the Editing of Drawing Guides
- Enabling and Disabling Drawing Guides
- Locking and Unlocking Guide Axes Manually
- 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