Guides

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Guides

You can add guides to graphical sheet's to act as visual guides, or to act as snap guides.

hmtoggle_arrow1Snapping to Guides

 

If Snapping to Guides is enabled then when objects are created or moved, they will snap to guides when they are close to them.

There are 4 types of guides

Horizontal Guides

Horizontal Guides will snap the vertical Y coordinate of objects.

Vertical Guides

Point Guides

Angled Guides

 

Vertical Guides will snap the horizontal X coordinate of objects.

Point Guides will snap both the horizontal X and the vertical Y coordinates of objects

Angled Guides will snap both the horizontal X and the vertical Y coordinates of objects to the Angled Guide

Guides are a powerful tool in DEX that help you layout your design and also serve to snap objects to a custom grids. This video show you how to add horizontal and vertical guides as well as point guides.

Using Guides