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 Grid Settings section of the project settings.
Controls at a Glance
Displaying Guide Bars |
Show Guide Bars Turn the bars on or off. Drag a bar to move it, and double tap it to lock it in place. |
| Use Diagonal Guide BarsThe bars run diagonally instead, for patterns you stitch on the diagonal. |
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Auto-place Guide Bars |
| Snap the bars around your areaGo to your area first: pan and zoom so the block you are working on fills the screen. Then tap Place, and the four bars snap around it. |
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Working in a Region |
Focus on a region
Frame the block you are working on with straight or diagonal bars, and see the stitch counts for just that region. |
| Restrict Chart to Guide RegionLimit 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 ColourMake the bars bold and easy to spot on your chart, in a colour that suits it. Standard settings controls, in Grid Settings. |
Did you know?
- Guide bars keep their positions when you rotate the chart.
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