How to get things lined up diagonally in Illustrator?

Let me put it this way Desertfox, I've been using Illy for years and I've never heard of the 'line segment tool', so I doubt that you are going to need it.

It's probably a good time now, to let you know that macrumors is not really the right place to be if you want to learn how to use illustrator. However it's a good place to come if you need a quick answer to a specific question or some special technique like vectorising a photo. 🙂

You've only had the program for a day, if you start a thread for every slight query it will soon become very tiresome. But I may be wrong, it wouldn't be the first time.

Why not just start a single thread called "teach me how to use illustrator" and put all your questions in that thread.

edit: silly me, I never knew it was called the 'line segment tool', all that is, is a tool for making lines. Not what you are after.

Put a stroke on the line of a different color (like lime green) so that you can see it even when it is not selected. Line it up. Delete the line.

You can also draw a line either with the line segment tool or pen tool and select it, click Apple+5 and that will convert the line you just drew into a guide that you can show/hide just like other guides.

turn on smart guides!

mapple.pro said:

turn on smart guides!

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