Forcing Horizontal And Vertical Lines - ELNA XPRESSIVE 2 User Manual

Tips
• You need to have the Show Dots
selected to see the anchor points,
direction points, and direction lines on
your path.
• Use the Select
points and the Vertex Select
select anchor points and direction points.
When you use the Select tool to select
anchor points, the direction points of each
anchor will be displayed only when the
anchor is selected.
• Using the Vertex Select
click the anchor point and choose a
command from the Vertex/Point Editing
shortcut menu to edit anchor points.
Forcing horizontal and
vertical lines
You can force horizontal and vertical lines
while you punch with a variety of Punching
tools, excluding the Enhanced Column. Think
of this feature as an electronic T-Square, a
drafting tool for drawing or measuring parallel
or perpendicular lines. When this drawing
mode is used, the next line is a plane that
starts from the last point that was punched.
You can use this drawing mode to create
perpendicular lines.
tool
tool to select anchor
tool to
tool, right-
The following table describes the electronic
T-square commands.
Function Key
F2 Horizontally aligns the next
point you punch with the
previous point creating a
straight line.
Shift + F2 Vertically aligns the next point
you punch with the previous
point creating a straight line.
You can also draw straight lines by using
SHIFT to constrain lines to 15º degree
increments for all of the Punching tools.
For more information, see "Drawing
diagonal lines".
To create a horizontal line:
1 In the Punching toolbar, click the tool you
want to use.
2 On the design workspace, position the
cross hair where you want to place the
anchor point and click to place the point.
3 To place your next point horizontally from
the last point, press F2.
This puts you in Force horizontal mode.
4 Position the point with the center of the
cursor.
5 Click the left mouse button to place the
new point.
The new point is placed horizontally from
the previous point.
6 To exit the Force horizontal mode press
F2 again.
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