Dutch0852 Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 (edited) Hi, I'm pretty new to Affinity Designer software. I am trying to create a guide by click and dragging from the ruler with the move tool. I have read the comments but I can't make head nor tails of it. Someone claims to have found the solution by "unlocking the guides". When I searched a topic on hoe to unlock guides someone answered that a lock/unlock function hadn't been added yet and would be added at a later date. So, at the moment my left eye is looking in my right trouser pocked with frustration. Any advice would be great. Thank you Rob Edited April 29, 2020 by Dutch0852 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Welcome to the forum, maybe you have inadvertently hidden guides by pressing Cmd + ; (Ctrl + ; on Windows) Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray S. Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Or go to View/Guidesmanager if you prefer a numeric exact placing of the guides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 Or, View > Show Guides may not be enabled. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutch0852 Posted April 29, 2020 Author Share Posted April 29, 2020 Thanks guys for getting back to me so promptly As y'all can see in the attachment that the show guides option is checked. Maybe a gremlin got into my software 😕 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wonderings Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 first thing to try when things are not acting as they should is do a restart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted April 29, 2020 Share Posted April 29, 2020 4 hours ago, Dutch0852 said: As y'all can see in the attachment that the show guides option is checked. In your attachment, so is "Lock Guides." Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutch0852 Posted April 29, 2020 Author Share Posted April 29, 2020 Ahh, brilliant. Thanks a lot guys, you've been a great help. Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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