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Grids and units

Grids and units

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Grids and units

- [Instructor] One of the most critical aspects to set up correctly right at the start of our board design here is to make sure that you've correctly set up your grids and your units and even your origin as you may need for a specific project. So, if I just go to my home tab here, and over on the right hand side I'm seeing grids and units here. So first thing you might wanna take a look at, we can fairly easily switch between metric and imperial here. Again, maybe this is something you set up already in a project template or a template of some sort, so it's all set up for you, but you can customize it in the middle of a project, as well. So I can switch from metric to imperial pretty easily here. I can set a specific origin, and I can change my snap grid, and I can make some custom grids, as well. So let's take a look right now. As an example, if I wanted to change snap grid, a number of default settings here, so if it's metric maybe I'll put it in millimeters, or in mills, whatever…

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