Operation Manual

102 | Corel DESIGNER X7 User Guide
This dynamic guide is an extension of a line segment.
You can turn off dynamic guides at any time.
To enable or disable dynamic guides
1
Click Tools Alignment and dynamic guides, and click the Dynamic guides button .
2 In the Alignment and dynamic guides docker, enable or disable the check box in upper-right corner of the Dynamic guides section.
You can toggle dynamic guides on and off by pressing Shift + Alt +D.
To display dynamic guides
1 With dynamic guides enabled, click a drawing tool.
2 Move the pointer over and then off a node, center, quadrant, or text-baseline snap point of an object.
3 Repeat step 2 with other objects to display other dynamic guides.
The snap points you point to are registered in a queue and used to create dynamic guides.
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You can also Do the following
Display a dynamic guide that is a tangent to the edge of an object Move the pointer over the edge of an object. When an edge snap
point becomes highlighted, press H. Then, display the dynamic
guide by moving the pointer off the snap point as if to draw a
tangent.
Display a dynamic guide that is perpendicular to an object Move the pointer over the edge of an object. When a snap point
becomes highlighted, press U. Then, display the dynamic guide by
moving the pointer off the snap point as if to draw a perpendicular
line.
Display a dynamic guide that is parallel to a line segment
Click Tools Alignment and dynamic guides, click the Dynamic
guides button, and ensure that the Generate parallel guides
button is enabled. Start to draw a straight line, and then move the
pointer over the edge of an existing line segment to register the
angle. Then, display the dynamic guide by moving the pointer back
as if to draw a line parallel to the line segment you just pointed to.