Guide Lines & How To Use Them In Inkscape

A little known feature of Inkscape is the guide lines. In this tutorial, I show you how to use them and how they can be used.
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[@154Colin]

I find an alternate easy way to remove a single guide line is to (without any object selected! ) is to hold the DELete key on the keyboard and slowly passing the curser arrow over the line.

[@ButtonPressGraphics]

Yes! It works both ways. So, whichever is easiest for yourself is the one you should use. I find it easier to select the line & hit delete but as they say "You, do you!"
Thanks for the comment because that is something I wanted to mention but I completely forgot whilst recording lol.
#StayCreative

[@vezirmertcan]

I am a new subscriber and I simply like your videos.

[@ButtonPressGraphics]

Well firstly, thank you for the sub and welcome to the channel. Secondly, thank you for the kind words. I upload once a week, every week. Happy you are here

[@ListaGamesLP]

Learned something new 😍
The Shift-Rotate is sooo handy!
Thank you!

[@ButtonPressGraphics]

Yes! It really is! It is a little feature that most don't realise exists which is why I wanted to make sure I covered it. I am really glad I could help.

[@Arcadelt12]

Thanks for the great video, is there a way to force your objects to move with your guidlines? for example, I want to create a guideline, create a path based on it, and then rotate the guidline to whatever position I want. the problem is that the path I created does not snap to the guidline, but rather just stays in one spot.

[@ButtonPressGraphics]

The quick answer is no, there is no way to rotate 'with' a guide line. However, if you are having issues with your paths not snapping to the guides you have created, that will be due to not having the relevant option enabled within the snapping menu.
To rectify that, simply click the dropdown menu that is next to the snapping button (Top-right of the screen) and make sure that 'Snap To
Guides' is enabled.
Hope this helps. You can also reach out via email if not and I can try to help that way.

[@johnkaradimas8403]

Hi Rob
Thankyou for a wonderful video on guides.
If you have time, can you show us how we can add dimensions and dimension lines eg on a square.
Regards
John

[@ButtonPressGraphics]

Thank you so much my friend. The guide lines are useful for all sorts of lining-up however, if you are looking to use guide lines for any straight lines, you can do that my snapping onto the corner then rotating until it snaps into place. Regardless, I will see if I can add it into a future video for clarification.

[@FRESHxLEMONxSLICES]

AWESOME TUTORIAL 🔥🔥🔥

[@ButtonPressGraphics]

Thank you so much my friend. I am very happy that you found this useful #StayCreative

[@FRESHxLEMONxSLICES]

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[@alexhetherington8028]

I never knew you could rotate the guidelines ha ha

[@ButtonPressGraphics]

I remember having the exact same aha moment my friend

[@oikosu]

@@ButtonPressGraphics I always wonder what's the "dot" used for, haha

[@ButtonPressGraphics]

@@oikosu Well now you know haha

[@sael_elu]

Same! 😂😂😂

[@rakesh-tj2qg]

Could you please make a video related to 3d objects or how to use the 3d box tool of inkscape.

[@ButtonPressGraphics]

Ofc I can. Thank you so much for the suggestion

[@hamedrezayi5949]

Thanks

[@ButtonPressGraphics]

You are very welcome my friend. Happy to help 😁