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May 16, 2025
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hello friends welcome to free tutorial
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and in this tutorial we will learn grid
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and uh video descriptions Now here I
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have a very simple
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sketch which we will create using the
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grid options and we will learn the
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importance of a grid option So basically
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grid are used as a visual guide to help
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with aligning object maintaining spacing
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and visualizing distance between the
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elements Most CAD software has an
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options to display or toggle the grid on
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or off This can be done with a setting
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So let's see how we can
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uh select the grid options So first go
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to the edit and go to the
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preferences Go to the sketcher and go to
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the grid options So here you will see
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the option of a grid available in a
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free So here check this grid options
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Once you check it the grid option will
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be available And here is a grid spacing
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and uh rest of the things keep as it is
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Say okay Now here I have created a
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body and now I will uh switch to the
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part design
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workbench and now here I will click on
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the sketcher and switch to the isometric
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or press
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zero So let's press zero And now we will
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select the front plane And you can see
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that uh this options which we have a
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checked grid is automatically on because
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we have
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a on the grid For
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example let's go to the preferences and
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uh uncheck this grid option and say okay
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and come out of the sketch and again
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edit the sketch So here still of the
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uncheck we are seeing the grid So if you
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wanted to off the grid so here is a show
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grid is a true make it false So now if I
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make it false grid is get off and if I
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want the grid in my
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sketching I can make it a true So when
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you on this with a particular sketch
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then setting does not matter if you off
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the grid here but
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still I can on the grid from the setting
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but if you go to the preferences and
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uh check this grid So whenever you
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create a new sketch you will get the
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grid So I would recommend it if you are
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a habitual to create a sketching with
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the grid then uh check it else uncheck
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it and uh on the grid with a in a grid
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options which is true So here I have a
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set true now I will edit the sketch Now
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in a sketcher here is options for the
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toggle grid So here grid auto spacing So
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if you check this so once you zoom it so
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you can see that the grid spacing is
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changing but from uh my experience you
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must check this grid auto spacing off
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and
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here spacing is of 10 mm You can also
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change this as per your requirement
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Now let's uh create this a simple sketch
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with the grid option and we will see how
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important this is So as our grid option
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is
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of 10 mm which means that uh from this
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point to this grid line is of 10 mm So
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here is our dimensions 20 So we will uh
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select the line and uh create one
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line So you can see that uh as this grid
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spacing is helping us so we can create a
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approximate line of uh 20 mm and
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now we will make it 20 and here we will
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make it a symmetric with the axis
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Now here let's imagine these dimension
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are not given So let's I will hide these
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dimensions And
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now we will uh with the grid options we
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will create a approximate profile And uh
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we will see how gritty grid is helpful
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to create a rough sketch where you do
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not have a dimension or you wanted to
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create a undimensional drawing For
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example you wanted to just show the
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shape to the someone which should be
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approximate
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So in this case we will do it So here we
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have a took one dimension and let's also
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imagine that this 10 mm dimension is
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also not available So
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here to create this line at an angle we
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do not need the angle but we can see
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that it will be the 45° So here we have
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the
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grid point here just we can imagine and
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we can create a diagonal line
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Now with this grid setting we can easily
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create a
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line And now here we will uh create one
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vertical line So this is basically this
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one If we wanted to
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create symmetric look like a
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sketch or we can say that uh it should
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be the scaled geometry For example if I
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create a line
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by considering this point grid point and
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this one and at the same way we can
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create
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a on the other side So these grid lines
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are helping us to create a sketch Now
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let's draw this horizontal line So we
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can consider this is a 10 mm So this
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will be the half of it means 5 mm So we
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will select a line and we will create in
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between of these two vertical line
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Now we can adjust
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it so that it looks
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symmetric So here we have to imagine
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that we do not have a dimension and you
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just wanted to create a rough sketch
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Now we will create the vertical line
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which will uh be from the in between or
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we can say the
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midpoint even though practically it is
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not a midpoint but with the help of a
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grid no one can say that uh this is not
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a midpoint
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So let's create a vertical
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line So we have come here and now we
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will draw the two horizontal line with
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respect to the this points So
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let's create a line tool and
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uh create a horizontal line on the both
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the side and now this we can imagine the
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10 mm So we will create a two vertical
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line on the both the side So
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here we will draw
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it And
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now we will uh
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create a line by joining these two
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corner points as we have a did at the
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bottom side So select this and select
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this and now join
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this and let's zoom it and just make our
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sketch more precise So you can see that
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we have not given the dimensions
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but we have created the lookike
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profile as per our sketch So that is how
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the grid help us to create
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a approximate profile as per our sketch
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and if grid is not available then if you
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create it then it would be not symmetric
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like this So this is the basic tutorial
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how to use the grid options and uh how
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to customize the grid spacing And now
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here if I check it the grid spacing is
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on So once I zoom it so you can see that
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uh my grid spacing is changing So this
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option of a grid spacing is uh depends
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upon your
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comfort but I recommend it to uncheck it
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so that I get a constant grid of a 10 by
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10 spacing 10 x 10 means that horizontal
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will be 10 and vertical will be 10 So
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10x 10 square will be created on your
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sketch So this is the basic tutorial to
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use the grid option in a free CAD and if
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you have use any 2D tools like AutoCAD
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then you might be aware about this So
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this is all about this uh tutorial Thank
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you for watching and thank you for your
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