Grid in Layout is rubbish

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Thanks! Working now!
Theo

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Thanks!
Theo

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Moral of the story: eliminate a day’s delay receiving a useful answer by providing a complete and clear description of the challenge you face when stating the question. :slight_smile:

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Wrong conclusion

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It did take longer than it should have to get clear information as to what the issue really was. Saying that “Grid in LayOut is rubbish” did not come anywhere close to describing the actual issue you were trying to fix. Had you told us something like the model appears pixellated in LayOut, the very first reply would have solved the problem.

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What hasn’t yet been mentioned in this thread is that the LayOut Document Setup>Paper window has the Rendering Resolution settings to control some of the pixelation:
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Low, I think, means 72 DPI on the Mac and 96 DPI on Windows
Medium is 150 DPI on both platforms, and High is 300 DPI.

For speed, I always keep it as shown - I don’t mind the pixels on my screen if I don’t get them in my output.

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There are two types of snapping in LayOut: Object snap and Grid snap.
They can both be toggled on or of.Grid snapping is displayed by little blue crosses, object snapping (eg. Model endpoints or edges, but also LayOut objects)) are displayed in the (more familiar) SketchUp inferencing signs : Red little square, Green endpoint etc. :
Though Vector rendering might help finding Model snaps, if you have the Grid enabled, it still ‘sees through’ the viewport, thus sometimes giving a hard time.
You can set the grid in the Document Setup.

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If you want the good old ‘Millimeter papier’ to draw ‘Op schaal’ , here is a template:

A3-millimeterpapier.layout (16.8 KB)