Precision drawing with the grid

When you turn on the grid by selecting Grid on/off (View menu or View drop-down list on the Quick Access Toolbar), you can see a dot grid in all viewports of the current project; this 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 selected 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 and turn off point snap in all drawing files, the cursor will snap to grid points only.

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

Use Grid on/off to show and hide the grid. Use Grid Settings (View menu or View drop-down list on the Quick Access Toolbar) to define the spacing between grid points in the x-direction and y-direction. When creating the grid, the program takes the current system angle into account.