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Task Grid Lines

Purpose: to understand how a grid/grid net is created:

1. Navigate to”(01) Stue” i Project Browser and click on
Grid tool on Ribbon:

Architecture ► Datum ► Grid

2. Create Grid, as illustrated at the end of the task, where cross-grid A1 is placed at the
intersection between the two reference planes at the bottom left of the view.

First, create all the vertical Grid Lines. The lines can be drawn individually, but can also
be drawn using the. Offset, using the Pick Lines with Offset, and using the Copy
command.
After first horizontal Grid Line is created, rename this to "A" by clicking in the bubble.
Then will the subsequent Grid Lines be named in alphabetical order.
Note that there is no grid line with name "I"

Grid net should not be dimensioned.

3. Elevation-symbols should be moved, since there is no
room for the entire grid net between them.

Select the entire elevation view symbol with a Crossing
Selection to be sure to get all the parts with and move it
with the Move.

4. When the network grid is created, it can with advantage
be locked with Pin, so the module lines later can´t
moved inappropriately.

Select all lines and press the function Pin
Modify ► Pin

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