What is the "Meta Grid"?

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careysub
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What is the "Meta Grid"?

Post by careysub » Fri Aug 29, 2014 8:22 pm

Neither the Reference Manual or the offical QCad book mention this thing, but there are options to set its spacing. What does it do? What effect does setting Meta Grid spacing in Drawing Preference have?

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Re: What is the "Meta Grid"?

Post by Clive » Fri Aug 29, 2014 10:39 pm

Examples:
Units set to Millimeters.

Example 1

Meta Grid set to 100
Distance between grid points = 10
Meta grid example 1.png
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Example 2

Meta Grid set to 1000
Distance between grid points = 100
Meta grid example 2.png
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Re: What is the "Meta Grid"?

Post by careysub » Sat Aug 30, 2014 3:02 pm

Thanks.

So this is display only user-reference thing, it does not affect drawing behavior in any way?

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Re: What is the "Meta Grid"?

Post by Clive » Wed Sep 03, 2014 8:57 am

careysub wrote:Thanks.

So this is display only user-reference thing, it does not affect drawing behavior in any way?
Changing the Meta grid will not affect your actual drawing behaviour no! only the grid point distances in relation to the unit size you choose to use.
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