Custom guides at angles?

[trinitydesign]

Is there a way to create custom guides that are at angles or can a regular object line or shape be converted into a guide?

[Pšenda]

12 hours ago, trinitydesign said:

create custom guides that are at angles

Grids yes, but Guides as far as I know not. But you can draw your own lines, on which you will snapping.

12 hours ago, trinitydesign said:

can a regular object line or shape be converted into a guide?

If I do not know so.

[Callum]

Hi Trinity Design,

Welcome to the forums

It's not possible to have guides at angles I'm afraid. It's also not possible to turn an object into a guide.

Thanks

Callum

[trinitydesign]

Seems like a minor over sight to only assume guides will be vert or horiz. 

Yes, I know I can use "lines" but they then need a stroke to be seen and things get busy... guides are visible all the time. 

[R C-R]

9 hours ago, trinitydesign said:

Seems like a minor over sight to only assume guides will be vert or horiz. 

I think it is more that to keep things simple, guides are implemented as having only a single adjustable parameter, that being either its x or y coordinate, while grids are more complicated & can have several different ones.

[MikeW]

I too would enjoy having rotatable guides. I use them in both my font editor and XDP frequently. XDP uses a special guide layer. Any line or objects placed on it are guides.

[Old Bruce]

7 minutes ago, MikeW said:

I too would enjoy having rotatable guides. I use them in both my font editor and XDP frequently. XDP uses a special guide layer. Any line or objects placed on it are guides.

A guide layer would be killer good, especially if we could add to it and subtract from it as the project goes on.