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[xPaxion]

Hey,

Is it possible to have guidelines similar to this which I can design against?

[brynn]

Welcome to the forum!

Absolutely!  Inkscape offers both Guides and Grids.  To create guides, place your mouse over a ruler, press the mouse button and drag on to the canvas.  You'll see a guideline being dragged out.  You can place it wherever you want.  If you place your mouse over a guide and hold the Shift key, you can rotate the guide.  If you double-click on the guide, a little dialog box opens where you can place the guide precisely by coordinates, relative to other guides, or degree of rotation, or you can also change the color of the guides.

Also Extensions menu > Render > Guides Creator can make some preconfigured type of guides.  I haven't tried them, but they might be something like what you're showing in your screenshot.

Inkscape also offers grids - both regular rectangular grid and also axonomic (isometric).  File menu > Document Properties > Grid tab

The grids mentioned above are not actually part of the drawing.  They are just there to help you with positioning.  But Inkscape also can draw grids which are part of the drawing.  See Extension menu > Render > Grids, and also Path menu > Path Effects > Construct Grid.  Or of course you could draw a grid with the Pen or Pencil tool.

Also, Help menu > Inkscape manual can help you with many, many things.

Umm....I'm not sure in your screenshot if the 4 overlapping rings are supposed to be guidelines.  Inkscape doesn't have any circular guides.  One of the extensions I mentioned can make a polar grid, and another one can make a wireframe sphere, which is sort of a circular grid.  Other than that, there aren't any circular grids or guides....that I know of, anyway.

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And there are some external extensions (meaning that they have to be installed, which is not hard) which create grids and guides.  Here's the list I have.  I don't know which ones of them might or might not work or which version of Inkscape they might work with.  You'll just have to test.

Here's how to install extensions:  https://inkscape.org/en/learn/faq/#how-install-new-extensions-palettes-document-templates-symbol-sets-icon-sets-etc

• Inkscape Guide Tools - https://github.com/sambody/inkscape-guide-tools   
• Grids - https://github.com/cds4/inkscape-grids    creates triangular and perspective grids
• Guides Creator - https://github.com/Ale-/inkscape-gs   create guides with offset, useful to create a grid system
• Pyjagrid - https://github.com/yannlossouarn/Pyjagrid    makes parametric grids, wireframe screens
• Grid-Maker - https://github.com/sambody/inkscape-grid-maker   (no longer maintained)
• Multi Grids - https://inkscape.org/en/~cds4/%E2%98%85multi-grids  or  https://github.com/cds4/inkscape-grids  creates 3 different kinds of grids, with multiple layers of subdivision (including perspective grid where perspective points can be adjusted)