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Perspective Grid tips and tricks

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Perspective Grid tips and tricks

I've saved my progress as Initial house grid.ai and in this exercise I am going to pass along a few tips and tricks for working with perspective grids, because there is a heck of a lot of bells and whistles going on here and there is a few top secret hidden tricks as well. Now I have set up my grid. It's visible on-screen and I've selected the Perspective Grid tool. Now note that you can hide the grid at any point in time when one of the grid savvy tools is selected. So that is to say, if the Selection tool is active, which is not a grid savvy tool, and you try to click on that little close box above the widget, nothing happens. It just ignores you and that's ridiculous in my opinion, but that's the way it works. However, if you switch to one of the grid savvy tools like the Rectangle tool and then you click on the little close box, then the grid goes away. As soon as you click on the Perspective Grid tool which is also of course grid savvy, so you can click the close box with it as…

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