topic Re: grids and background in Modeling

grids and background

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:49:43 GMT

howdy

In order to have no gridlines show up as the default setting, is View > Grid Options > Grids & Background the only place to modify this?

We have imported some v9.0 projects into v11.... however all the detail windows have the grid displayed and need to be turned off one by one for each detail

not a fun jobbie

anyway to do that globally in one fell swoop

thanks

yukioMishima

Re: grids and background

TomWaltz — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:21:52 GMT

I'm not sure if there's a place to globally turn them off, but why bother? They don't really do anything.

Re: grids and background

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:46:05 GMT

tom

true... they don't do anything..... most here just find them visually distracting

would have been nice & expeditious if there was a way of turning them off globally

thanks for the response

yukioMishima

Re: grids and background

Link — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:21:53 GMT

Nope - there's no global switch. As a professional template maker, I feel your pain.

It's not just grid display either. Each Section/Elevation has it's own user origin, scale, zoom and probably some others that I can't recall right now.

It may be worth you creating a custom toolbar for this repetitive purpose (or any repetitive purpose for that matter). Create it so that you can just click down the toolbar, performing the functions you want in order. Then it becomes pretty brainless...

Have fun!

Cheers,
Link.

Re: grids and background

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:51:12 GMT

link

thanks for the reply and the tip

why is it that one seems to always take 2 steps forward and 1 step back when upgrading archiCAD

yukioMishima

Re: grids and background

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 08:58:36 GMT

just out of interest.... does anybody really use the grid.... i think i have it switched off permanently

yukioMishima

Re: grids and background

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:12:42 GMT

Personally, I use it all the time...can't live without it! I use it as a visual guide as well as a drafting guide. It comes in handy on skewed walls as well. When first learning CAD in the days of CADvance it was stressed by our boss and now I can feel lost without it. But I do turn it off occasionally.
I have found that it helps to select a lighter color.

Re: grids and background

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:25:50 GMT

I use it and I need it, but like you said, we want to set a standard colour / setup of it that applies on all new views... It works in earlier versions, why not anymore?

Re: grids and background

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:33:44 GMT

We definitely need a way to have these turned off globally. What is worse is that a given section or elevation view will not maintain the status of the grid display. I am constantly turning of the gird display in section, elevation and detail windows.

Re: grids and background

Anonymous — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:15:38 GMT

I generally use it. It is good to set it up at the beginning of the project. I usually use 4' sq for residential, 10' for commercial/institutional, and various metric sizes depending on the project. I tried tweaking the settings back in the old days to use it as a column grid but that (unsurprisingly) never worked well).

I usually use a light grey background (7% to 10% grey - 90% to 93% brightness - depending on the monitor) and a slightly lighter grey for the grid lines so they are visible but not distracting. Since the lightest pens I ever use are 30% grey there is never any confusion between the grid and drawn elements.

I agree with Mike that there should be a way to turn them off and adjust them globally. It would also be nice to set them by drawing type (a 10' grid doesn't make much sense in details). But I don't find this to be a big problem and would rather see the development resources go into more important things.

Re: grids and background

Link — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:06:07 GMT

Matthew wrote:
I agree with Mike that there should be a way to turn them off and adjust them globally. It would also be nice to set them by drawing type (a 10' grid doesn't make much sense in details). But I don't find this to be a big problem and would rather see the development resources go into more important things.

I agree that they should be able to be turned off globally, but they can be set uniquely for each viewpoint.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: grids and background

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:27:06 GMT

Link wrote:
Matthew wrote:
I agree with Mike that there should be a way to turn them off and adjust them globally. It would also be nice to set them by drawing type (a 10' grid doesn't make much sense in details). But I don't find this to be a big problem and would rather see the development resources go into more important things.
I agree that they should be able to be turned off globally, but they can be set uniquely for each viewpoint.

I know they can be reset individually. It just occurred to me that it might be nice to be able to set a default or reset them by drawing type. Of course It's no big deal just a possible refinement. I don't find grids to be any problem.

Re: grids and background

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:59:22 GMT

Link wrote:
I agree that they should be able to be turned off globally, but they can be set uniquely for each viewpoint.

I must be missing a setting somewhere, because mine are not sticking for each viewpoint. I have turned them off a number of times and they "turn themselves back on". I was trying to track down why this is the case and was wondering if under "more options" in the work environment I should change my preference on how views are opened. Do you know of other settings I should mess with? Thanks for any advice, because this grid display is driving me crazy.

Re: grids and background

Eduardo Rolon — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:38:33 GMT

You list 1040 as your current update, I had the same problem until I updated AC. The other times I saw this was that either if I opened the view by clicking on the navigator and then opened it by selecting it on plan (or vice versa) and it would reset.

Re: grids and background

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:00:36 GMT

ejrolon wrote:
You list 1040 as your current update, I had the same problem until I updated AC. The other times I saw this was that either if I opened the view by clicking on the navigator and then opened it by selecting it on plan (or vice versa) and it would reset.

I am on 1114, but forgot to update my signature. That is a good idea though and perhaps "the bug" slipped back in in 1114. Are you using this latest update?

Re: grids and background

Eduardo Rolon — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:16:03 GMT

I'm in 1114 and it has not happened recently. Other options that I remember trying before it stopped was to close all windows, sections and details before exiting AC, doing a view update after changing the grid (even though it is not supposed to affect them) and creating a new elev/sect/det and make sure that the default creates the grid as i want if not eye drop from one that has the grid as I want. What I remember clearly is that it drove me nuts…

Re: grids and background

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:00:17 GMT

I turned those annoying grids off so they don't show up every time I open a new drawing. :)Go to Grids & background, under Main Grid set steps to 0

Re: grids and background

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:06:08 GMT

Why don't you make the gridlines the same colour as the background?
Thus they will be "on" but not visible!