topic Re: Offset Guide Lines possible? in Modeling

Offset Guide Lines possible?

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:02:45 GMT

Does anybody know any trick I am not aware of for creating a Guide Line parallel to but at a predefined distance from an existing edge of an Element?

For example, I have a Wall and I want to place trees along a line that is parallel to the outer side of the Wall and it 1 meters in front of it.

Re: Offset Guide Lines possible?

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:42:48 GMT

Turn on the guides, place your cursor from where you want the guide line, (if you want to put the guide line 1 meter above) enter y 1 +

Re: Offset Guide Lines possible?

Barry Kelly — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:03:16 GMT

rucailo wrote:
Turn on the guides, place your cursor from where you want the guide line, (if you want to put the guide line 1 meter above) enter y 1 +

But if your wall isn't horizontal or vertical you can't use "X+/-" or "Y+/-" unless you want to play with rotated grids.

An easy way for any angled edge is to use the measure tool.
Hover over the edge to get the current (bold) guide line at that angle.
Now use measure tool and click first point anywhere on that edge.
Move away at right angles and type in the distance you want to measure (instead of clicking and actually measuring).
In the tracker click the little "Mark position" icon (crosshair icon) and a circular and perpendicular guide lines will appear.
Now you can add another giude line parallel to the edge (make sure the first guide line is still the current one) and the intersection of the circle and the perpendicular.

Just tried with version 12 and I get a circle guide andparallel guide line instead of a perpendicular one.
I'm sure it was perpendicular in previous versions.
Maybe I changed a work environment setting somewhere.
Either way you get what you want.

Barry.

Re: Offset Guide Lines possible?

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:21:39 GMT

Yes, I rather wanted a solution for a general case, not a horizontal or perpendicular one.
This one works rather well, so it will do for now. Thanks.