Operation Manual

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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
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Click View Dynamic guides.
A check mark beside the Dynamic guides command indicates that dynamic guides are enabled.
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, an eligible snap point of an object.
3 Repeat step 2 with other objects to display other dynamic guides.
The snap points that you point to are registered in a queue and are used to create dynamic guides.
The eligible snap points — the node, center, quadrant, and text baseline snap points — appear only when the corresponding
snapping modes are activated. For more information about snap points and snapping modes, see “Snapping objects” on page
225.
To avoid displaying too many dynamic guides, you can clear the queue of points at any time by clicking in the drawing window or
pressing Esc.
You can use the snap points you registered to display intersecting dynamic guides. To do this, display a dynamic guide, and then
move the pointer along the dynamic guide to where an intersecting dynamic guide would appear from a registered snap point.
To place an object in relation to another object
1 With dynamic guides enabled, select an object.
If you want to move the object by a specific snap point, move the pointer over the snap point until the snap point becomes highlighted.
2 Drag the object to an eligible snap point of the target object.
3 When the snap point of the target object becomes highlighted, drag the object along the dynamic guide to position it.