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Adding a grid

Adding a grid

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Adding a grid

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- [Instructor] So of course, as you will have seen in the introduction, if you watched that particular section, Draw can be used for all sorts of different things, and maybe you'll need a grid to assist you. So I'm just going to use one scenario here, of course, there could be many, but I'm going to create a new document with a standard screen here, and maybe I want to do something in the area of web design, or app design even, and to get that nice and balanced, it's a good idea to have a grid. Well adding a grid is really easy, there are two kinds, a standard grid and a perspective grid, and we'll be dealing with the latter in the movie immediately following this one. So to add a grid, you simply go to the gear fly-out at the top right of the screen when you're inside a drawing, and you'll see just about halfway down, it actually says grids there. Tap add and then you'll get to choose between the grid type you want. So in this movie, we're just going to tap for a graph grid, like so,…

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