Illustrator :: Toggling Guides On Or Off Breaks Drawing Process

Mar 4, 2013

Hitting Command and U cancels the drawing process. Is there a way to not have this happen? - It's useful to be able to engage the guides to start the line aligned to another object via smart guides, but I'm unable to continue the line without 'starting it again'.

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AutoCAD Civil 3D :: Toggling Corridors In XREF Drawing

Jun 19, 2013

Is there a way to toggle visibility of a corridor in a drawing where the model has been Xref'd into? The problem I am having is that we have one Model drawing that has a corridor.This Model is xref'd into multiple drawings.  Not all drawings should show the corridor.

The only way I have found so far is to go into model and toggle the corridor on and off depending on which drawing I want to print or view.  It creates problems when you want to run a Publish of multiple drawings because you always have to goof with the Model file.  This seems a bit of a step back from being able to toggle visibility of objects in a drawing file with an xref atached and leaving it that way and ready to be printed at any time.

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Illustrator :: CS6 - Converting PMS To Process For Files To Be Printed 4 Color Process

Oct 4, 2012

How the PMS color palettes "simulate" on screen how the color will print on different substrates (glossy vs matte vs uncoated paper). That's great for comps, but if you convert it to CMYK to print it, and the values are representing a "simulated" color it won't look correct (by that I mean come close to matching the spot color). For example, the uncoated palette simulates the color by making them appear a bit washed out on screen - pretty good visual simulation. But it might do so by adding black and cyan to orange for example, etc. - effectively dulling the original color.

So if I convert that to CMYK within the new Pantone + color palette, and then send it to the printer - it won't appear as it did on screen, it will dull the end color even more because it's converted the color to the dull simulated version - what a disaster! It's only doing half the job - showing us what it should look like on screen. In order to be truly efficient for design professionals the CMYK conversion might remove black and cyan completely to effectively brighten the color in the final output on uncoated paper. I would prefer it just stick to the standard conversion, which Pantone did have as a standard palette option (PMS to process), and then I can adjust if I think it's necessary.
 
Any corporate branding system will likely start with a PMS spot color palette for the identity. Then it will build into many different adaptations - full color brochures, large format banners and trade show graphics, website, advertising. So any corporate branding system will need to have PMS, CMYK and RGB versions of their main corporate color palette. There was a standard for these translations that was automatically consistent in the Adobe software and that is now all over the place, so it relies on individuals manually adapting the color mixes for final use - what a great way to screw things up.

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Jul 14, 2012

I'm trying to see if I can write a rule that will link a custom property at the part level in a template and have it update when I copy the part and drawing to a new design.  Below is the formula I'm using and it works in the original files but when I use Design Assistant to create a copy for a new design, this formula will not update.

iProperties.Value("Custom", "Title")=Parameter("Bearing_#01.ipt.Build_Title")

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AutoCAD 2010 :: Enabling Table Breaks Slows Drawing Save To A Crawl

Dec 28, 2010

I have a data-linked table (from an Excel 2007 file, 32-bit) in an Autocad 2010 drawing (64-bit, Windows 7 OS).

If the table is displayed as a single column, with table breaks off, the file will save within seconds.

If I enable table breaks, it will take at least 3-5 minutes for the drawing file to save.

I am unable to find any solution. I've tried using different table styles, different linked files/drawings, saving locally vs. on the network, headers and titles repeating vs not. The slowness is a major productivity killer.

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CorelDRAW X6 :: Alignment Guides Doesn't Match With Guidelines And With Dynamic Guides?

May 27, 2013

What I mean:

Draw an ellipse. Skew it with mouse.

Draw a rectangle to allign with ellipse's outer dimension by Alignment Guides (not by Align and Distribute command). 

Now the aligned side of the Rectangle must be tangent to the ellipse BUT it's not! To verify, try to search an intersection point. Draw a Guideline and snap it to the rectangle's aligned side. It must be intersection point between Guideline and Ellipse but there isn't...

CorelDRAW X6

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Photoshop :: Accurate Placement Of Guides [View>New Guides]

Feb 13, 2008

I have a number of vertical and horizontal guides to be placed, at different points. Is there a better way of placement rather than zooming up on the ruler area, watching the Nav coordinates and dragging and dropping? I'm really looking for a method which will I can key in the actual placement coordinates in some way, and the guide will jump to this point?

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CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6 :: Vector Outlines Breaks Apart On AI Files Made In Illustrator

Oct 1, 2012

I have a problem with importing AI files to CDx6. Everytime i do so, the curves split up. Like if i have a circle that i can fil in adobe and then open it in CD, it breaks it apart so i have to join curvs and what not. This is a huge problem when i import templates and such..

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Illustrator :: CS5 - Snap To Guides?

Feb 4, 2013

How do you get Illustrator (CS5) to snap to guides? I don't want to use smart guides -- just regular old-fashioned guides. I drew a rectangle. I divided the path into a grid. I turned the grid into guides (make guides). But I cannot get anything to snap to the guides. Also, can I control the snap distance (like you can with smart guides)?

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Illustrator :: Can't Select Guides

May 27, 2013

When creating stuff I always have a separate layer for guides. I keep trying to select specific guides and they blink and that is it...can't select them? The layer isn't locked, so I don't understand...

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Illustrator :: Creating Artboards From Guides

Jul 5, 2012

I am working on a large wall sticker and I need to "slice" the image into pieces for vinyl printing. Is there anyways to place guides (or slices) and have them be converted to separate art boards for printing? In the past I would make individual art boards the exact size of each object and save them one at a time to send to the printer. Then once the art came in I could piece the wall art back together as I applied it to the wall or glass, But this is time consuming.

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Illustrator :: Can't Get Construction Guides To Work

Sep 23, 2013

I like to use the construction guides in Illustrator, however I can't get them to work. I have it checked off in Preferences.

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Illustrator :: Guides Keep Bouncing Away From Object

Apr 13, 2013

Everytime I try to place a guide on an object/ piece of type, the guide bounces away from the object by a number of pixels. how to find where to switch it off/ make it more accurate,

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Illustrator :: Artboard Rotation With Guides

Jun 20, 2013

I've just rotated an artboard to portraight from landscape, then selected all the guides and transform rotated them 90 deg. With this method all the guides need to be readjusted for corrrect positioning
 
Is there a way to reorientate the artboard with guides in place?

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Illustrator :: Remove Guides In Between The Artboards?

Jan 15, 2014

For instance I have a series of guides set across 10 horizontal artboards. I need two more in a vertical format, but all of the guides from the horizontal are carried through.

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Illustrator :: Smart Guides Suddenly Disappeared

Sep 1, 2013

I was working on a project and using Smart Guides, but suddenly, they disappeared. I don't know what I did, the Smart Guide box is still checked in the View panel, and if I open a new document, they work just fine again. what other settings I should check?

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Illustrator :: In CS6 - Smart Guides Don't Appear To Be Working Correctly

Nov 30, 2013

I'm having some trouble with smart guides in Ai CS6. They are on. However, when my cursor intersects a guide path, words like 'intersect' and 'guide' do not appear, as I have seen them do for others. Also, the 'heads-up' information display that shows the width and height, e.g. when using the grid tool, does not appear either.
 
The guides are working to some extent, it seems, since I do get green lines here and there.

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Illustrator :: How To Resize Shape(s) That Has Been Drawn Using 3D Guides

Nov 24, 2013

I've created a very basic shape using the 3D grid as my guide - picture if you will 4 boxes, one on top of each other (as per illustration below):
 
Each "box" is made up of 3 shapes to give the 3D effect.
 
I need to resize one of the boxes, the yellow one, which needs to be resized in keeping with the 3D framework (making it smaller in height), and then placing the yellow box above the purple box. How this can be done without having to redraw the shapes in the required positions.
 
I might add it is the grouped shapes that makes up the box which I am trying to resize in one hit, as opposed to the individual shapes.

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Apr 12, 2012

I need access to AI guides in AfterEffects shift+alt+ctrl double click doesn't always work.

Is there a script to convert all guides to paths?

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Jun 7, 2013

How do I get "guides and grids" to stay as I input them in Illustrator 6? Didn't used to return to default setting in previous versions

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Aug 31, 2013

The problem: when I rotate a guide in Illustrator CC  and then want to move that guide while zoomed way in (+300%) I am unable to select the guide. Annoying? Most definitely.

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Illustrator :: Snap Proportional Drag Scaling To Guides?

Aug 31, 2013

Draw a box.  Draw a Guideline.  Have all snaps on.  Including "smart Guides".
 
Drag proportionally (by holding down SHIFT) the size of the box... and it won't snap to the Guides. 
 
How can proportional scaling be down by dragging, and have Guides and other nodes, vertices, anchors, "smart Guides" etc actually functional as Snap positions?
 
Or Adobe figure there's no need for accuracy when proportionaly scaling?

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Illustrator :: Align To Pixel Grid - Unable To Put Guides

Oct 10, 2012

I currently have grid setup, and I am unable to put guides specificly where I want, they will either be a few pixels to the left/right of where I actually want. It seems like my guides or rectangles that I make only snap to the grid, and I do not want this to happen since some of my shapes do not fit a grid specifically. Lets say I want my rectangle to be 4.5 Grid blocks (each block being 25 px), so 112.5, it only allows me to do 4 blocks or 5 blocks. Is there a preference that can be changed so I can make free shapes without having them direct on the grid?
 
Attached an example. I'm trying to make the red box the same width and in the same position as the black and it does not let me.
 
I guess I found my solution, under the transform fly out menu when "align to pixel grid" is unchecked it fixes this.. Is there a better way to do this though?

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Illustrator :: Can't Move / Select Diagonal Guides When Zoomed In 600%

Jul 1, 2013

I'm working on a few objects I have to divide using diagonal guides. However, when I try to select one of them above 600% zoom, I'm not able to activate them using the selection tool or the direct selection tool. I can select them using the layers panel but as soon as I zoom in above 600% and try to move them with the selection tools they get deselected.

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Illustrator Scripting :: How To Get Location Of Horizontal And Vertical Guides

May 17, 2013

How do I get the location of horizontal and vertical guides?
 
I'm halfway through by using some calculations on geometric bounds and subtracting it from the document height but can't I just do something like
 
nextGuide =mydoc.guides[x].location;
 
Also, why does it seem that Indesign scripting has more access to properties and methods?

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Illustrator :: Objects Won't Line Up With Anchor Points And Guides?

Jun 25, 2013

Here's a screen shot to show what I mean. I tried to create this smaller box off of the anchor point of the larger box.
 
Currently usuing AI CS6 on a mac running osx 10.6.8

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Aug 27, 2013

Seems like both should still work when snap to pixels is on... but they don't.  Any reason for this?    

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Illustrator :: Can't Align Objects Or Paths To Guide Intersections With Smart Guides

Jan 4, 2014

In AI, smart guides indicated "intersection" when I am drawing a path or moving an object to align to the intersection of two guides, when I release the mouse, the object I am moving/drawings jumps slightly off the intended alignment intersection.  If I continue to try to move it to align, it jumps to the other side or back to where it was but will mot match the intersection.

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AutoCAD .NET :: Process Multiple Drawing Files With Interface Hidden?

Apr 19, 2013

I am trying to create a C# program to do batch Title Block attribute updates on selected AutoCAD drawings.

What I would like to do is keep the AutoCAD interface hidden, and just display my custom form which would allow the user to select the drawings that they wish to process.

And then the custom program would load each drawing behind the scenes and update the Title Block attributes, but the AutoCAD interface would remain hidden.

Is something like this possible with AutoCAD 2010?  Are there any examples doing something like this (showing a custom form at startup, etc.)?

PS We do have newer versions of AutoCAD available if needed.  Our engineers use AutoCAD 2010, but we could use a newer version for this standalone tool which would only be used by 1 or 2 people.

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Illustrator :: Layout Vertical / Horizontal Guides On Artboard - Copy Them Over To New Blank Artboard

Nov 3, 2012

1.) I dragged out vertical and horizontal guides from the rulers and then created a new art board. The new art board now has the horizontal guides carried over from the first art board. How can I have separate guides on each of my art boards? I am using art board rulers.
 
2.) Is there a way to layout vertical and horizontal guides on an art board and copy them over to a new blank art board?

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