How can I display a grid when I am drawing an sketch?

MichaelPascoe

@aras welcome back to Onshape! Wow, a 9 year old post, cool.

While I don't use a grid, I am surprised at some of the replies dished out in this thread. Usually, we keep it pretty professional on the OS forum.

When using a grid in other software, I typically use it to align things. In OS, I simply let it auto snap vertically or horizontally, or assign a constraint, so no need for a grid. Also, no need for pdf drawings, I just share a link to the model with my clients.

rick_randall

Lets go back to the original post, and forget the" I like grids - I don't like grids" issue.

aras said:

When I am in sketch mode and drawing a line, how can I know how long my line is? I think for 2D sketches it would be very useful to have a grid that you could use as a guide. Is this currently possible?

answer 1) 2015 didn't have dimension on the "fly" yet, but this would be the best way to answer this now.

answer 2)

NeilCooke said:

Unlikely to happen

As of this post, On shape has no grid. keep submitting tickets - and best of luck.

christopher_leffel

As someone with only a modicum of modeling and design experience, including CAD, 3DSMax, Maya and SolidWorks, and a whole giant boatload of IT experience including quite a fair bit of dev and engineering, I find that such a simple request that people genuinely want is still not implemented... 9 *years* later... disappointing to say the least, and certainly not encouraging. At a quick glance, I can't even see a way to import an image on a plane that I could use either as a grid, or a point of reference makes me wonder whether my time with it thus far has been well spent or not.

Vittal_Bigamudra

Grids can help with perspective before extruding in 3d models. I know people will tell me just to look at the selected plane but grids make it easier.

mihai_stefan

+1 for sketch grid 

Ste_Wilson

Does this feature script hit the spot?

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/24871/sketch-grid-custom-feature

aras

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/106207#Comment_106207

Woha! This sure looks promising!

This is the first time I hear about feature script and fs.place. Is that a market place similar to food4rhino? Is this a new thing? Could you tell me a bit about it and where to get started with it as a developer?

This almost makes me want to try onshape again after all this years even though I have a Fusion360 and Rhino8 license right now and primarily use those. Hopefully I can give this a try on the weekend. If it works as shown, then I'll accept this as an answer.

Thank you!

Oliver_Couch

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/99152#Comment_99152

How do you tolerance a 3D model? Quickly viewable dimensions with manufacturing tolerance is the main reason I still make 2D drawings, even though they take a lot of time. If there's a better way I would like to know!

Caden_Armstrong

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/106211#Comment_106211

I'm not familiar with food4rhino, but it looks pretty similar.
fs.place is a marketplace for FeatureScripts.
If you have any questions, feel free to shoot me an email.