Creating grids in AutoCAD LT 2005

I'm very, very new to AutoCAD and am currently still familiarising
myself with what the application can offer. I'm looking for a way in
which I can create a grid of 3mx3m cells and drop it over an existing
site plan, house plan or other drawing.

Can anyone tell me whether this feature exists in the application or
whether it's relatively easy to do this programmatically in the LT
version?

I'd then like to be able to select an intersection on the grid and to
place symbols at these intersections? I'm currently doing all this by
hand, but am sure there's a better way to do it.

Any help or advice gratefully received ...


G

 

Is there a problem with the built-in Grid?

....or, if you prefer a grid made of lines, you could simply draw a couple of
lines, at, say, the bottom and left of your workspace, and then ARRAY them
to make your grid. You could place your grid on its own layer, so it could
be LOCKed, and turned on and off at will.

Make a BLOCK or GROUP of all the lines in your grid, and you could then move
it about as a unit.

When placing objects, the INTersection OSNAP will snap to the intersection
of your grid lines.

All that being said, however, there are really much better ways of placing
objects in a drawing than relying on a grid at all.
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I'm looking for a way in which I can create a grid of 3mx3m cells

The Grid command will control both the appearance of a grid, and at
what spacing you can snap to that grid. E.g, you can turn on a grid
that shows a point every 1ft, and then set the "grid snap" to be every
6in.

There is a button at the bottom of your screen to turn the visible
grid on or off.

Note that this grid does not print. It will only show for the
"extents" of your drawing. So, if you extents are only 1ft x 1ft, but
you are zoomed out to look at an area 1,000 ft wide, you won't be able
to see the grid.

If you want to print out a grid, or show lines, you must actually draw
that in your drawing. I've sometimes done this when I have a curved
line that a craftsman must reproduce. In this case, I commonly draw a
grid of heavy and light weight lines.

Joe Dunfee