Adding grids

- Like levels, grids provide organization…and structure to your projects.…Grids serve to locate the structural…columns in your project and provide…key points of reference, reviews, and sheets alike.…Unlike levels, not all buildings need grids.…For example, most residential projects…would not have a need for grids,…however most commercial buildings…do have a need for column grids.…Therefore, the kind of project you're creating…will often dictate the need for grids.…You don't have to create the grids right away,…but it's a pretty good idea to create them…early in the project just to help…establish that form and structure.…There's a lot of similarities between…creating grids and creating levels.…

I'm going to go to the Architecture tab…and I'm working currently in a Level 1 floor plan.…Over here in the Datum panel you'll see the Grid button.…I'll click that, and like levels before,…there are some different shapes that we can use.…Unlike levels, we can actually…draw grids as curves in addition to straight lines.…For this first example I'm going to…