Resize Grid

tj_thorniley

I'm building a small part (a few square cm); it's dwarfed by the size of the grid/canvas/environment. It's disorientating. How can I resize the environment so I'm not constantly having to zoom in?

Jake_Rosenfeld

@tj_thorniley : 

We currently do not have the capability to resize the default planes and origin.

The following may solve the problem you're having:
You can hide the default planes and origin in the feature list by hovering over them and clicking the eye that appears next to them.  (You can also hide the planes by pressing 'p').  Once you have these planes hidden, 'zoom to fit' or any clicks on the view cube will be much more accurate to the scale of your model.  If you want to sketch on one of these planes (or do some other operation requiring the planes), you can always show them just for that operation and then hide them again.

Let us know if this workflow works well for you!

Oh how wrong I was!  You should be able to click on a default plane and grab the circular corners to resize.  My bad!

Jake_Rosenfeld

@tj_thorniley : 

We currently do not have the capability to resize the default planes and origin.

The following may solve the problem you're having:
You can hide the default planes and origin in the feature list by hovering over them and clicking the eye that appears next to them.  (You can also hide the planes by pressing 'p').  Once you have these planes hidden, 'zoom to fit' or any clicks on the view cube will be much more accurate to the scale of your model.  If you want to sketch on one of these planes (or do some other operation requiring the planes), you can always show them just for that operation and then hide them again.

Let us know if this workflow works well for you!

Oh how wrong I was!  You should be able to click on a default plane and grab the circular corners to resize.  My bad!

owen_sparks

You can also create new planes that are resizable should you wish.  (By resizable I mean the blue representation in the graphics area, a plane is by its very nature infinite...)

O.S.

owen_sparks

Erm, @Jake_Rosenfeld I'm pretty sure we can resize the default planes now.

O.S.

Jake_Rosenfeld

Corrected my original post, thanks!

owen_sparks

S'all good

Owen S

tj_thorniley

@Jake_Rosenfeld The corners don't seem able to be grabbed for resizing.



Trying to add a URL to the public document, but it seems like this basic functionality is unavailable also. Frustrating.

Jake_Rosenfeld

@tj_thorniley

Looks like we don't have those drag handles yet on mobile.  Would hiding the default planes as I described in the the original post (with the strikethrough) help?

If you add two improvement requests on the 'Improvement Requests' section of this forum it will help us prioritize these two features.  (You could name them something like 'Resize default planes on mobile' and 'Access document URL on mobile').  Thanks!

FYI @jon_sorrells