Transforming digital design objects utilizing dynamic magnetic guides

A system comprising:

• one or more memory devices comprising a digital design document and digital design objects;
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• one or more computing devices that are configured to cause the system to:
• generate a visual constraint guide within the digital design document comprising the digital design objects;
• identify a set of the digital design objects intersecting the visual constraint guide, wherein the set of the digital design objects have a distribution relative to the visual constraint guide and an alignment relative to the visual constraint guide;
• identify a first user interaction with the visual constraint guide indicating a first transformation comprising at least one of:
• a translation, a rotation transformation, a size scaling transformation, or a shape modification;
• generate a transformed visual constraint guide by applying the first transformation to the visual constraint guide;
• generate a transformed set of the digital design objects by translating the set of the digital design objects based on the translation to the visual constraint guide, positionally rotating the set of the digital design objects based on the rotation transformation to the visual constraint guide, proportionally changing distances between the digital design objects based on the size scaling transformation to the visual constraint guide, or modifying a shape configuration of the set of the digital design objects based on the shape modification to the visual constraint guide while maintaining the alignment of the set of the digital design objects relative to the transformed visual constraint guide and the distribution of the digital design objects relative to the transformed visual constraint guide;
• in response to identifying an additional digital design object that intersects the transformed visual constraint guide, generate an updated set of the digital design objects by adding the additional digital design object to the transformed set of the digital design objects;
• identify a second user interaction with the transformed visual constraint guide indicating a second transformation;
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• generate a transformed updated set of the digital design objects from the updated set of the digital design objects based on the second transformation.

A method comprising:

• identifying digital design objects within a digital design document;
• generating a visual constraint guide within the digital design document;
• identifying a set of the digital design objects intersecting the visual constraint guide;
• in response to user interaction with the visual constraint guide, transforming the set of the digital design objects and the visual constraint guide by modifying a shape configuration and corresponding orientations of a subset of the digital design objects based on a segment shape modification to a segment of the visual constraint guide;
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• providing the transformed set of the digital design objects and a transformed visual constraint guide for display within the digital design document.