I am trying to create a 4' (~1200mm) vertical ruler with a horizontal mark every 1/2" (13mm). I am using a magnified view and using guides to get the marker lines at the correct height from the bottom.
Is there any way to have the guide snap to the inch mark on the Ruler at the margin of the canvas? The best I have been able to do is to super-magnify, then get the guide line as close as possible to the "whole inch" mark.
No snapping as far as I know. I´d use the Ruler duplicate function in the ruler dialog as it´s the most precise way I found. Or make a grid. Or use tiled clones with a line spacing and convert them into Guides.
For precise placement you need to enter numerical coordinates from the keyboard instead of visual placement.
Draw a short horizontal line and duplicate it 12 times so you have a stack of 13 lines. Select all. [shift+ctrl+a] to open the Align and Distribute dialog then [Align left edges] followed by [Distribute centers equidistantly vertically]. Create a group. Go to the select tool and enter 12 inches in the Height of Selection box. Now you have a foot-long ruler with tick marks at 1 inch intervals.
You can quickly add the 1/2 inch tick marks. Duplicate the ruler. Delete the top line. Go back to the Align and Distribute dialog and center align both groups. Group the groups. Set the X: coordinate Y: coordinate to 0 to align to the top of the page.
Finally, duplicate the group then Object > Object to Guides or [shift+g] to create a horizontal guide at every tick mark.
As always, there's more than one way to achieve this.
Draw two short horizontal lines, one below the other. (It helps later if the lower line is shorter.) Select both and set the Height of Selection to 0.5 inch. Group. Edit > Clone > Create Tiled Clones.... In the symmetry tab select P1: simple translation. Set Rows, columns to 13 × 1. In the Shift tab click the Reset button then set Shift Y: Per row: to 100%. (This sets a vertical gap between rows equal to the tile height, which we set at 0.5 inch.) Now press the Create button.
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I am trying to create a 4' (~1200mm) vertical ruler with a horizontal mark every 1/2" (13mm). I am using a magnified view and using guides to get the marker lines at the correct height from the bottom.
Is there any way to have the guide snap to the inch mark on the Ruler at the margin of the canvas? The best I have been able to do is to super-magnify, then get the guide line as close as possible to the "whole inch" mark.
Thank you,
Leander
No snapping as far as I know. I´d use the Ruler duplicate function in the ruler dialog as it´s the most precise way I found. Or make a grid. Or use tiled clones with a line spacing and convert them into Guides.
For precise placement you need to enter numerical coordinates from the keyboard instead of visual placement.
Draw a short horizontal line and duplicate it 12 times so you have a stack of 13 lines. Select all. [shift+ctrl+a] to open the Align and Distribute dialog then [Align left edges] followed by [Distribute centers equidistantly vertically]. Create a group. Go to the select tool and enter 12 inches in the Height of Selection box. Now you have a foot-long ruler with tick marks at 1 inch intervals.
You can quickly add the 1/2 inch tick marks. Duplicate the ruler. Delete the top line. Go back to the Align and Distribute dialog and center align both groups. Group the groups. Set the
X: coordinateY: coordinate to 0 to align to the top of the page.Finally, duplicate the group then Object > Object to Guides or [shift+g] to create a horizontal guide at every tick mark.
As always, there's more than one way to achieve this.
Draw two short horizontal lines, one below the other. (It helps later if the lower line is shorter.)
Select both and set the Height of Selection to 0.5 inch. Group.
Edit > Clone > Create Tiled Clones....
In the symmetry tab select P1: simple translation. Set Rows, columns to 13 × 1.
In the Shift tab click the Reset button then set Shift Y: Per row: to 100%.
(This sets a vertical gap between rows equal to the tile height, which we set at 0.5 inch.)
Now press the Create button.
Hopefully you'll see a ruler 12.5 inches long.
Thank you, Polygon and Paddy, for your suggestions. I am sure these will be helpful!