Duplicate guides using opt/alt key and cmd+D/ctrl+D
XD is becoming dominant, and I love the Guide featured added in XD. However, the guide can be even further improved if you add a feature allowing duplicate the guide or create a guide using the guide itself.
Details:
Unlike Photoshop and Illustrator, XD artboards don't have a fixed ruler on the interface. Guides can be added from the top and left artboard borders, which is fine. The issue is when we are working with a zoomed level on any object, the top and left edge of the artboard is not accessible, and creating a guide either we have to move to the side and pull a guide to the place, or we have to zoom out to artboard.
This problem can solve by adding a feature that allows duplicating any guide so we can pull any nearest guide without going to the edge of the artboard. Similar to copying any object using Opt/Alt + drag or Cmd/Ctrl + D
Jatin Soni
shared this idea
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David Petrey
commented
As a web developer I primarily use XD to prepare and export images and I use guides for this. As someone who was used to PS not being able to create or duplicate a single guide is annoying. I have to zoom out of a very tall mobile design and grab the guide and then zoom back to where I was feels silly. By the way I vote to change the name of this site to "users without a voice". No reason really. Just sounds nice. 😎
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Cy233
commented
Yep. zooming out to create another guide is not 'user-friendly'. I just want to hold down a key and drag another guide line out.
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Thomas O
commented
YES YES YES please.... impossible to make guides like this without a lot of time and work! Please allow to copy and paste guide lines and allow to pull guides from other places. Even better have a more robust guide tool so you can specify a guide with several horizontal rules. Converting a repeating grid of squares to guide would also be great.
See attached.
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Anonymous
commented
very needed feature. it slows me down a lot to have to go up to the top of the page to drag a guide. very unpractical .... why don't you start from what you learnt on other products Adobe. Surprises me how all over the place standard features are in all programs
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zurichXD commented
I'll give you an example: Often when you're working. Use the zoom to see it better. So it's tedious to zoom out and in again. Only for the help line. Yes in the same artboard.
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If there is already an guide line in the workspace. Simply copy with ALT as with the objects
