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Modular grid options

Modular grid options allow you to change how modular grids appear by default in your drawings. When you change these options, all new modular grids will use these settings; existing grids in your drawings will not change.

Most of these options are also found in the properties for a grid. To change one instance of a modular grid, see Displaying a modular grid.

To change modular grid options

1. Select SpaceClaim Options from the File menu and click Detailing > Modular GridSee Sketch grid.
2. Set the defaults for the following options:
   • Color: The color of the grid, labels, and the legend axis.
   • Grid text height: The height of all text labels for the grid.
   • Font: The font and text height used for grid labels. Type the complete name for a font, followed by a comma and the font height in units (mm, in, etc.). You can also click the ... button and select a font and a size in points; the size will be converted to the current units.
   • Grid interval: The distance between grid lines.
   • Intervals per grid line: The number of rows between each grid line.
   • LineA straight line, arc, or spline drawn in Sketch mode or on a layout plane. Lines have length but no area. When you pull a sketch into 3D with the PullTool used to distort or deform geometry. Use the Pull tool to offset, extrude, revolve, sweep, draft, and blend faces; or to round, chamfer, or extrude edges. When converting a sketch to 3D, pulling a line creates a surface and pulling a surface creates a solid. tool, lines become edges. style: The type of line used for grid lines.
   • Thickness: The thickness of grid lines.
   • Horizontal text location: Show labels for the bottom of grid lines, the top of grid lines, both, or neither.
   • Vertical text location: Show labels for the left end of grid lines, the right end of grid lines, both, or neither.
   • AxisStraight line that an object rotates around or that objects are regularly arranged around. See Alignment axis. labels: Override X, Y, or Z with your own labels.

   • Negative and positive prefixes: A prefix shown before the distance on a grid label.

   • Negative, positive, and zero suffixes: A suffix shown after the distance on a grid label.
   • Modular grid description label: A label shown next to the section line when you show a modular grid on a cross section view.
   • Automatic creation for new views: Select an option for displaying modular grids for all new views in drawing sheets.
     • Automatically show modular grid when two grid directions are parallelto the sheet: Two of the X, Y, or Z axes in the view must be parallel to the drawing sheet to display the modular grid. 
     • Automatically show modular grid when at least one grid directions are parallelto the sheet:The X, Y, or Z axis in the view must be parallel to the drawing sheet to display the modular grid.
     • Do not automatically show the modular grid
   • Automatically show modular grid description: If selected, then the description label is displayed next to the section line for a cross section view.
   • Show balloons around grid labels: Show circles around grid labels.
   • Automatically show origin: Show the legend axis on the lower left corner of the view.
3. Click OK to save your changes.