New User working off the grid

Recently bought version 8 for some simple architectural drawing. My minor gridlines are 1' and my snap interval is 1".

When the grid snap is on my understanding is that any lines drawn will snap to the 1" division on my drawings. But when I zoom in I find my lines are usually in between the inch marks. If I move the line it does move in 1" increments but it stays in between the inch divisions.

What I want to do is make all of my lines end up exactly on the 1" grid without zooming in, turning off snap and manually aligning it with the inch divisions.

I hope I have been able to explain this. I'm sure it is something simple but I have gone over the whole help file with no success.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

 

Under the TOOLS menu, click on Drawing Tools, or press Control-Q, then
click on the Grid tab. See if changing these values answers your
question. My default snap interval is .25, which is what you may be
snapping to. Change to 1.0 and see if that helps.


Rich M.

 

I would guess that "Snap to Grid" is/was off when the line was created.

Other solutions could be:
- you are specifying an exact distance for the line that is a fraction of an inch
- you specify an absolute (or even relative) position to start/end the line which is in a fraction of an inch
- moving the line by arrow keys is set to move the objects in 'grid incraments'.
- if you are just grabbing an arbatory point (or center point on the object with "snap to grid" on, then it will jump along to the next grid point when moving.
- snap points on a line (end points, mid points, nearest...) will over-rule grid snapping, so if the line is 1" long and a line was snapped to it's mid point, then you have created the start point of that line on a 0.5" interval.

Hope this helps

Gadget