jackson6612 Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Hi I think SNAP and GRID settings are related. Then, how come when GRID is off I could still turn on the SNAP and the crosshair stops moving smoothly as if snapping to something? And why is it so that when GRID is on, the grid lines don't get visible? It's supposed to look like a graph paper with small squares etc. Please help me. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldon Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Please help me. Snap and Grid are independent. You can set the spacing of each to differing values. Grid is an area of regularly spaced dots to aid drawing. Grid does not create grid lines. Most people are directed to use Snap and Grid early on, but soon learn that in most cases, they have no practical use and so ignore them. If you had tried looking in your help files, you would have got this information a lot sooner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
designerstuart Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 another way to look at it is this - GRID toggles the visibility of the 'points' (as eldon said there are no graph paper grid lines) SNAP toggles the cursor snapping to those points and as commonly mentioned, neither get much use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 What are you drawing that you feel Grid and Snap would be useful tools? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Mather Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 (as eldon said there are no graph paper grid lines) There is in my AutoCAD 2011? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Agree with JDM but this wasn't an option in 2005. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack_O'neill Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 The only time I ever use the grid was when I first started learning to draw in 3d. I would occasionally turn it on just to get oriented. The graphics capabilities weren't too good on the computer I had back then, and I was doing all this on a 17" CRT monitor. Well, my eyesight wasn't too good either, and drawing in wireframe sometimes my brain would invert the image. When that would happen, I'd zoom out, click on the grid and that would provide a spacial reference that would help me see it correctly. That hasn't happened in many years though. Don't know if it's that monitors have improved considerably, or medical science finally advanced far enough that the corrective surgery fixed my eyes or a combination of both, but I haven't used it that way in a long long time. Never did find a practial use for snap. Turning the grid on will show you where objects are in relation to a drawing's limits, if you happen to run across a drawing by someone who still uses limits. One of the companies I freelance for still has limits in thier drawing standards and thier checker gripes if I forget to set them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
designerstuart Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 There is in my AutoCAD 2011? well i guess that's some form of progress?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryder76 Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 Even though I draft electrical schematics, hydraulic flow diagrams and P&ID's I don't use SNAP and/or Grid either. However, on past jobs/contracts I have worked with companies that do. It can be very handle in the aforementioned applications. Personally, I find SNAP to be a pima. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Mather Posted January 5, 2011 Share Posted January 5, 2011 JD wrote, There is in my AutoCAD 2011 well i guess that's some form of progress?! I wouldn't know if that is progress or not - I turned off the grid 23 or 24 years ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackson6612 Posted January 15, 2011 Author Share Posted January 15, 2011 Thanks a lot, everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 I've worked in the Power and Controls group for two large companies and they both insisted all of their drawings be "on snap" at all times. I can live with the snap set at .0625, but I just find the grid obnoxious. lol It's a preference thing. Some people love their little dots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackson6612 Posted January 15, 2011 Author Share Posted January 15, 2011 Hi Cat Why was so? What was the reason for the insistence? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 Hi Jackson, From a drafting stand point, the electrical discipline is about as exciting as watching the grass grow and requires basically no knowledge of the "drafting profession", but typically "uniformity" is a pretty big deal. We want all the symbols and wiring to "line up", so snap is very useful for that purpose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackson6612 Posted January 15, 2011 Author Share Posted January 15, 2011 Thanks. Yes, uniformity and consistency is very important in many fields, though sometimes it just sucks. It's a Bengali tiger, isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Posted January 15, 2011 Share Posted January 15, 2011 yes it is, Jackson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackson6612 Posted January 15, 2011 Author Share Posted January 15, 2011 This series might interest you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypbqLnHsR9g&feature=related Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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