Precision drawing with the grid

When switching on the grid (using Grid on/off (View menu or Special toolbar)), you can see a dot grid in all the viewports in the active project; the grid stretches across the entire workspace. The grid serves as a means of visual orientation, as well as for point snapping. The grid points themselves do not appear in printouts.

When the Grid point option is activated in the Point snap area of the Point snap options, you can use the grid points as snap points. If you clear all the other check boxes, as well as the Scan active drawing files and Scan reference drawing files check boxes, the cursor will snap to grid points only.

Note: Grid points are snapped even when the grid is not visible.

You can show and hide the grid with Grid on/off. Use Grid Settings (View menu or Special toolbar) to define the spacing between grid points in the x-direction and y-direction. When drawing the grid, the program takes into account the current system angle.