Reset Ruler Origin

[MotRettop]

Hi,

I can't seem to find out how to reset the origin of the rulers...I saw some mentions that it wasn't in V1 but would be added to V2.

I've scoured the help sections but might have missed this??

Can anyone steer me right?

Thanks!!

[Old Bruce]

Double click on the ruler intersection, top left corner.

[MotRettop]

That doesn't seem to work for me, however, it lets me drag out the rulers and totally screw everything up :-)

I would like to set the bottom left corner of my artwork to 0,0 and place features from there at exacting locations easily...

 

Thanks Old Bruce!

Edited June 22, 2023 by MotRettop

[Old Bruce]

3 minutes ago, MotRettop said:

I would like to set the bottom left corner of my artwork to 0,0 and place features from there at exacting locations easily...

Setting instead of Resetting, okay.

Turn on the Snap to Spread, and just have that one on to make it as easy as possible. Move the Bottom left corner of the document to the upper left of the document window, again just to make things easy. Grab the intersection of the rulers and drag it to the bottom left of the document/canvas/spread/artboard/page and let the snapping help out.

[MotRettop]

Thanks Old Bruce! 

That seems like a lot of work for something in most programs is just a button click...

Is this like lacking the ability to view the cursor location in real time not being available either?

These would seem to be pretty basic useful functions eh?

[PaulEC]

1 hour ago, MotRettop said:

That seems like a lot of work for something in most programs is just a button click...

It's one of those things that takes longer to explain than to do. Basically just click on the intersection of the rulers and drag to the bottom left (or wherever else you want the origin of the rulers to be) of the document. Using the correct snapping settings just helps to do it more accurately! (I'd really like to just have a button I can click, which can read my mind and set a ruler origin where I want it!)

[walt.farrell]

4 hours ago, MotRettop said:

I would like to set the bottom left corner of my artwork to 0,0 and place features from there at exacting locations easily...

But which direction do you want 1,1 to be from 0,0?

You have no control over the direction of the coordinates, which run to the right (increasing x) and down (increasing y). You can set where 0,0 is, but you cannot change that direction.