GraphiteEditor/Graphite

Local-axis grab (G key) dashed line should show only the X or Y component, tilted

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#3,341 opened on Nov 4, 2025

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Description

G lets you enable grab and then hit X or Y once for a global axis (document space) and a second time for a local axis (layer space), but the dashed line visualization is drawn incorrectly in the latter case:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1e049146-e215-4abb-9f81-27f62e398836

When transforming in local space, it should tilt the dashed line with the local space as well, and draw just the X or Y component instead of both.

See this comment for a little more detail.

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Investigate the coordinate system transformation for local axis movement and correct the dash line rendering to show only the relevant axis component tilted.
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