Guide bars are movable lines you place over the chart to frame the area you are stitching. Use them to keep your row, focus on a region and count the stitches inside it.

All guide bar controls live in the project settings, in the Guide Bars section.

Controls at a Glance

Turning Guide Bars On

Show Guide Bars
Turn the bars on. Drag a bar to move it, and double tap it to lock it in place.
Use Diagonal Guide Bars
For patterns you stitch on the diagonal. Diagonal bars are only shown in grid-only layout.
Auto-place Guide Bars
Zoom to the area you are working on, tap Place, and the four bars snap around it.

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Working in a Region

Count stitches in an area
Place bars around a block of the chart to see the stitch counts for just that region.
Restrict Chart to Guide Region
Limit the symbol list, marking and highlighting to the cells inside the region. Everything outside is dimmed. Statistics still report for the whole project.

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Style

Guide Bar Thickness and Colour
Make the bars bold and easy to spot on your chart, in a colour that suits it.

Did you know?

  • Guide bars keep their positions when you rotate the chart.

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