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AutoGrid 7

• ChooseViews>Grids>ActivateHomeGrid.

•Deletethegridobject.

When you deactivate a grid object, any v iewports

based on that g rid switch to the corresponding

orthographic view. For example, a Grid (Front)

viewport becomes a Front viewport. A Grid

(DisplayPlanes)viewportalwaysswitchestoTop

view, regard less of the currently displayed plane.

AutoGrid

Create panel > Any object categor y > Object Type rollout

Extras toolbar > AutoGrid

AutoGrid used to position the second block on top of the first

AutoGrid lets you automatically create, merge,

or import objects on the surface of other objects

by generating and activating a temporary

construc tion plane based on normals of the face

thatyouclick.Thisservesasamoreefficientway

ofstackingobjectsasyoucreatethem,rather

than building objects and then a ligning them as a

separate step.

You can use objects within an XRef scene as

reference when A utoGrid is on.

Note: IftheSmoothcheckboxisturnedoninthe

Parameters rollout of a parametric object, the

construc tion plane is placed tangent to the face of

the surface implied by any s moothing present on

the surface, not the actual face of the surface.

Procedure

Ex ample: To create a box a ligned to a nother object

using a temporary construction gr id:

Create or load a scene containing an object to

whichyouwanttoalignanewbox.