MyDraw drawings are equipped with a grid patter by default, which is aligned to the horizontal and vertical rulers on the page. Not only does this allow for precise sizing and alignment, this function also enables the Snap and Glue functions to help you align a drawing's shapes perfectly.

To change the units and drawing scale, see the Drawing Scale topic. To zoom in or out, which will either decrease the step size of the ruler and simultaneously increase the percieved grid size, hold Cntl+Scroll Up, and to increase the step size and decrease the grid size hold Cntl+Scroll Down.

Alternately, you can go to the View ribbon tab and choose your zoom factor from the Zoom area.

To manipulate the grid to your exact specifications, go to the View ribbon tab and click on the Grids and Rulers button. This will open up the Grids and Rulers editor.

Guidlines are an important part of precision shape placement in MyDraw.  Guidelines are Grid and Ruler independent, allowing the user to add arbitary (yet unprinted in the final product) gridlines for alignment and snapping purposes. To add a Guideline, hover the mouse over either the horizontal or the vertical ruler. The cursor will shift to a double arrow. Click, hold and drag to place a guideline in the drawing area.

You can right click on each individual guideline to change their properties, including adding a name, choosing the exact pixel position, appearance aspects, and change it's protection properties, for example making it unselectable and therefore unmoveable, allowing the guideline to be printed, removing the ability to delete it, and removing a context menu for the item.

Shapes

Arranging Shapes