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No Grid?

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Nate711
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No Grid?

I just got Inventor and am trying the tutorials. I am doing the constraint tutorial, but can't figure out how to show the grid. In sketch options panel it says that the grid is on. I have it in wireframe mode and the background is shades of grey.

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JDMather
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Are you in an active sketch?  Post a screen shot.
(BTW - I turned off grid back in year 1987 of the last century and haven't used it since.)

 

In this document I recommend turning it off http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/skillsusa%20university.pdf


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Dennis_Jeffrey
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I totally agree. I know of absolutly no productive user of Inventor that uses the grid. Last time I used it was also in 1987, where I needed an iso grid in AutoCAD in order to draw an isometric 2D view. After that torture, I never created a 2D ISO again.... 🙂

 

If you are new to Inventor, try these settings for sketches:

 

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Nate711
in reply to: Nate711

What is an active sketch? I also found out that it won't let me drag a selection box. In my first post when I said shades of grey I meant the backgrounf was a grey gradient starting from light grey on the bottom left and dark on the top right. Why can't I get the normal white background?

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Nate711
in reply to: Nate711

The selection box works now; I was dragging the wrong way.

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Nate711
in reply to: Nate711

All fixed. I didn't realize that the grid doesn't come up in non-sketch mode.

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