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Show or hide the grid in all view panels. |
Select Display > Grid in the main menu. |
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Show or hide the grid per view panel. |
In a view panel toolbar, click the
There is no default hotkey set for this command, but you can create your own in the Hotkey Editor - see Assign a hotkey to a command. |
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Edit the spacing, look, and extent of the grid. |
Select
Display > Grid >
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Set the display default preference for the grid |
In the Preferences window, select Display, then set the Grid plane option to Show or Hide. |
icon or select
If you are working in non-default units, you may not see the grid in perspective view when you first open a file. The problem is that the grid is created at the wrong size. Zooming out will show it. To fix this problem, select
Display > Grid >
and click the
Reset button. Then in the view panel, select
View > Default View or press Alt+Home.