To Turn On Grid Snap and Set the Snap Spacing

2013-04-10

Product Documentation

Intermediate

Click Tools menu Drafting Settings.At the Command prompt, enter dsettings.
In the Drafting Settings dialog box, Snap and Grid tab, click Snap On.
Under Snap Type, make sure Grid Snap and Rectangular Snap are selected.
In the Snap X Spacing box, enter the horizontal snap spacing value in units.
To use the same vertical snap spacing, press Enter. Otherwise, enter a new distance in the Snap Y Spacing box.

Note

Grid snap can be turned on and off with several other controls, including the F9 key and the Snap button on the status bar.

You can suppress snap temporarily by holding down F9 while you create or modify an object.