grids and background

[Anonymous]

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

[Link]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Eduardo Rolon]

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.

[Anonymous]

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?

[Eduardo Rolon]

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…

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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