Grid edit

[tomh13248988]

Does anyone have any experience in making the horizontal grid spacing different than the vertical grid spacing?

[maxwithdax]

Tom,

What program?

[tomh13248988]

Sorry, new here...Adobe illustrator cc

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[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

You can draw a Rectangle and use Object > Path > Split into Grid... and make the result into Guides: View > Guides > Make Guides.

[tomh13248988]

Thank you for this information. It works out way better than the rectangular grid tool. Regarding the same topic, can I make the intersection nodes of the new grid explicit snap points?

Cheers!

[Ton Frederiks]

Good to hear that helped.

tomh13248988  wrote

Regarding the same topic, can I make the intersection nodes of the new grid explicit snap points?

Turn View > Smart Guides On, than you can snap to guides or their intersections.

[tomh13248988]

Yes I have that feature turned on already except I am trying to snap to only the intersection nodes....not the guides. Is this even possible?  I have shown how close I can get with the snap, but for my application this is not close enough, you can see the center of the symbol file is not coincident with the anchor point of the grid. I can get the symbol center to "dance " around the anchor but never actually snap to it. To clarify, the outer circle is a zoom of about 3/4" diameter indicator on a template. The sunflower is a standard symbol available in Ai flower library.

Regards,

Tom