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Grid in Plotmaker

Conrado Dominguez — Fri, 26 May 2023 00:39:17 GMT

I attempted to use the GRID fuction in Plotmaker to help organizing a series of details in an orderly way.

However, I cannot find any way to set the grid origin (or an intersection point of the grid) at a desired location in the Layout.

The Grid origin defaults to one corner of the Layout which is useless since Layout have usually a Title block.

Is there any way to set the grid origin at a selected point ?

Conrado Dominguez

Re: Grid in Plotmaker

James Murray — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 13:51:56 GMT

Use the Aux. grid with a step of 1 to move the start point of the real grid. It takes some experimentation to center the grid on the sheet.

Re: Grid in Plotmaker

tsturm — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:15:27 GMT

The grid tool is nice to use but often hard to set up.

I have preferred to use hotspots on the Master page. You can set them on a layer which could be shut off it you choose.

I set up our pages using the Uniform Guidelines for the page grid system.

So my hotspots are 5 3/4" apart running vertically and 6" running horizontally.

Snap points exactly where I want and coordinated to every kind of Master Layout that I plan to use.