Studio Designer User Guide - Esko Help Center

6. 3D Guides
Studio Designer
In Illustrator, PackEdge, ... you can create horizontal and vertical Guides to align art. Studio Designer
offers another type of guides: 3D Guides for boxes and Collada files.
3D guides appear both in the document window and in the Studio Window.
Note: 3D guides are temporary visual aids, and are NOT saved.
You can hide or show the 3D guides in the document window using the application’s View settings,
by selecting View > Guides > Show Guides .
Select Show/Hide 3D Guides from the Studio fly-out menu (or click the button at the bottom) to hide
or show the 3D guides in the Studio Window.
If you are looking at a multi-part shape in the Studio window, the 3D guides will intersect the different
parts, and result in guides in multiple documents.
In the Studio Window, the 3D guides appear like a horizontal or vertical plane that is intersecting the
shape. In the document, a 3D Guide appears like a set of horizontal, vertical or even slanted line
segments clipped inside panel boundaries. These line segments show where the plane is intersecting
with the panels. Graphics can snap to these segments just as with regular guides.
This is how the 3D guides are presented in the 2D and 3D view:
For Collada files made with Studio Toolkit For Labels, you can get curved 3D Guides in the document
if your printable part is a conical label:
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