Turn off the automatic gird in AutoCAD?

[vtmiii]

dose anyone know how to turn off the automatic gird in AutoCAD, so when you zoom in tight it will not come on. when your busy, its a pain to stop for a second to hit the F7 key to off when doing M,E,&P drawings.

[BrenBren]

dose anyone know how to turn off the automatic gird in AutoCAD, so when you zoom in tight it will not come on. when your busy, its a pain to stop for a second to hit the F7 key to off when doing M,E,&P drawings.

I am assuming you don't always want it turned off? If that is the case, then I am not sure there is a way to have it automatically turn off when you reach a certain zoom level.

If you want it always turned off, set it that way in your template file; or just hit F7 when you open a new drawing.

[Brian Myers]

The grid itself is actually controlled by the DWG file. In other words, if its on in the drawing then the grid will be on when you open it. You can turn the grid off in your default drawing template for all new work, but you'll need to turn it off manually (or with a script) for all your existing projects.

[tedg]

Have you considered an Acad.lsp file for your startup functions?
You can have a bunch of variables all set up the way you want when you open a drawing everytime. Provided you're the only own using your machine.

You can have grid off, your favorite running osnaps, uscicon on, all kinds of cool stuff, everytime you open a drawing regardless how someone else left it.

Check out the forums on this topic.

[robert.1.hall72202]

The grid itself is actually controlled by the DWG file. In other words, if its on in the drawing then the grid will be on when you open it. You can turn the grid off in your default drawing template for all new work, but you'll need to turn it off manually (or with a script) for all your existing projects.

That makes sense. I have one issue with your statement or perhaps my cad files.
After installing 2007, I have noticed that the grid is turned on when I open
some of my cad files. The grid was not even used in any previous versions
of AutoCad. Very strange that it would all of a sudden be activated.

I had to use the Autolisp file in order to make sure the grid isn't turned on.

[vtmiii]

i will clarify my original post. we prefer the grid not to be on. it just get aggravating when it comes on by itself when you zoom in to a specific level and u have to stop and hit F7 to turn it back off. And yes our lisp file turns it off when you first open a new or existing drawing. I made sure of that when i took over the programming function of Auto Cad.

[BrenBren]

i will clarify my original post. we prefer the grid not to be on. it just get aggravating when it comes on by itself when you zoom in to a specific level and u have to stop and hit F7 to turn it back off. And yes our lisp file turns it off when you first open a new or existing drawing. I made sure of that when i took over the programming function of Auto Cad.It shouldn't be coming on when you zoom to a certain level. I've NEVER had it turn on on me, unless I hit F7.. :confused:

[jaberwok]

The only reason it should start to display when zooming is when it is switched on and you zoom to a point where it is no longer too dense to display. You should see a message when it is too dense.

[Brian Myers]

it just get aggravating when it comes on by itself when you zoom in to a specific level and u have to stop and hit F7 to turn it back off. This may sound like a waste of time post, but I need to ask it: Are you sure your grid is off before this happens? In other words, can you look and see the next few times you are in your drawings to see if they really do have the grid off? Also, do you have the bar with your Function keys on it(Ortho, OSNAP, GRID, etc.) on when you are in your drawing environment? I'm curious if its somehow getting clicked?

Yes I'm reaching, but I'm trying to eliminate the obvious since this doesn't seem to be a documented case. If we eliminate the obvious then it can be submitted to Autodesk (this has my curiosity up)as they will ask many of the same questions.

[Brian Myers]

I found this to be an interesting related web page:

http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-4151.html