Silhouette Studio Ruler Disappeared! How to Show Ruler in Silhouette Studio V4

Silhouette Studio Designer Edition opens up a bunch of extra features - and among them is a ruler along the top and sides of the work area. Sometimes that ruler seems to disappear on its own.

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No worries - it's easy to get back.

Open up Silhouette Studio and from the right sidebar open the Page Setup panel.

Click the second Grid/Options tab. This is where you'll find the option to turn on and off the rulers.

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Under Options you'll see the Rulers control. If the Rulers button is NOT blue, that means the rulers are currently turned off.

How to Show Ruler in Silhouette Studio V4

Click the Ruler button to toggle the rulers on. The button will then show up as blue.

This same Options/Grid tab within the Page Setup Panel also has controls the following design area tools and features:

How to Change the Size of the Grid in Silhouette Studio
Enabling the Crosshairs in Silhouette Studio
Smart Snapping Controls: How to Turn On and Off the Blue Vertical Lines
Enabling and Disabling Snap to Grid (which is what you experience when your design seems to be unable to move freely and instead jumps)
Changing the Color of the Silhouette Studio Virtual Mat

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4 comments

Shannon JacksonNovember 19, 2015 at 6:47 AM
I was so excited to see this post, only when I went into my grid options I don't have the rulers and crosshairs options like yours shows :( Any suggestions??
UnknownNovember 19, 2015 at 11:36 AM
No ruler icon on my page!
UnknownNovember 22, 2015 at 8:57 AM
Mine is not showing either, tried the updating account thing and no luck. Have contacted Sil via email for tech support.

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