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Construction lines

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Construction lines are guide lines for lining things up. They do not appear in an exported picture.

The Construction Lines menu open under its button in the tool row: 1 Add Horizontal, 2 Add Vertical, 3 the eye that shows or hides the lines

  • Show or hide them: click Construction Lines in the tool row, then the eye. A design opens with its lines the way you left them, shown or hidden, on the same computer and browser; the first time, they are hidden until you press the eye. Saving leaves them as they are. While they show, the eye has a slash through it; press it to hide them again.
  • Add one: click Construction Lines, then Add Horizontal or Add Vertical. A new line starts at the center of the panel. Add as many as you need. Adding one shows all the lines if they were hidden.
  • Select one: click it; it turns blue. Click another to add it to the selection. Click anywhere else on the panel to deselect them all.
  • Move one: drag it. The line takes the pointer from a few pixels either side, so you need not hit the dashed line exactly. For an exact position, select it and use Center On Panel or Move / Space Items, the same as for an instrument. Zoom in for finer control; see Zoom and scroll.
  • Delete one: select it and click Delete in the tool row.
  • Snap to one: with snap-to on and the lines showing, click an instrument to select it and drag it toward a line. When an edge or the center of the instrument comes within a few pixels of the line, it is pulled onto it and the line turns blue. Drop it there and it is exactly on the line.

Showing the lines with the eye, adding a vertical line, dragging it to the left, then selecting an instrument and dragging it toward it: the instrument's edge snaps onto the line and the line turns blue

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