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Chapter 7 Creating and Plotting Sheets Using Sheet Manager
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4 Under Add/Edit Grid Lines, you can define how the grid appears by using the
following options:
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Horizontal: Select this option to define a horizontal grid line.
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Vertical: Select this option to define a vertical grid line.
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Spacing: Use this edit box to select the spacing between grid lines.
Enter the spacing and line width values in paper space units. For example, if
you want the grid spacing to be every 25 meters in a 1:500 drawing, the grid
spacing should be 0.05 units. For a 50' spacing in a 1 = 40' drawing, the spacing
would be 1.25 units. The determining factor is the Viewport Scale, not the
drawing scale.
If you have a viewport scale of 1 paper space unit = 40 model space units, it
requires 1.25 inches (or paper space units) to show 50 feet (50/40 = 1.25). If you
want to place a vertical grid line every 100 feet, then set your grid spacing to 2.5
(100/40).
The vertical values (for profile elevations, for example) use 1/10 of the viewport
scale. The same 1 paper space unit = 40 model space units requires 1 inch (or
paper space unit) to show 4 feet (4/4). Therefore, if you want horizontal lines
that display every 2 feet of elevation in the profile, create a horizontal grid with
a spacing of 0.5 (2/4).
You can add additional grid lines with different spacing. For example, you could
create both horizontal and vertical grid lines for 25m spacing then add another
set for 5m spacing.
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LineWidth: The Line Width determines the thickness of the LWPOLYLINE
created for each grid line. Type a line width in this edit box if you want to
create the grid line with a given width in paper space units. All grids are
created as LWPOLYLINES. The default of 0 still creates an LWPOLYLINE. For
a complete description of polyline widths refer to AutoCAD 2000 online
Help.
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Layer: Type the layer name for the grid lines in this edit box. You can also
access a list of layers to choose from by clicking the Select button.
5 Click the Add button to place the grid line information into the Grid Lines list
box.
6 To edit an existing grid line, select its name from the Grid Lines list box, make
the changes in the edit boxes above, and then click the Change button.
NOTE
You can delete an existing grid line definition by selecting its name and
clicking the Delete button.
7 Click OK to save the Grid Style, or Cancel to exit the command.
To include the grid as part of a sheet style, attach the grid to the frame, and
then save the sheet style.