Grid and sketch settings | Shapr3D Basics

Welcome to this video on the grid, sketch  settings, and sketch constraints. When you   open up Shapr3D, you'll get a view that looks  like this. And to start a new Shapr3D document,   just click on the new project plus button  in the upper right-hand corner. In Shapr3D,   the grid is always on. You can  control what plane it is always   associated with. If you take a look  at the view cube, the blue axis is Y. The red axis is X, and if you swing it around,  the green axis is Z. To control the grid,   go to the views and appearances button, and  you can control the grid position by XY plane, XZ plane, or ZX plane. When you open a sketch  on a plane, the grid will automatically move   to the sketch plane. And when you get out of  the sketch, the grid automatically moves back. the default that's selected here. The default view  for the software can be showed by selecting the   default view here in the views menu. You can  also click on named views here in the list, or it's probably more easy to select on the  faces of the view orientation cube. You can   also use the arrows to spin around or just  click and drag the view orientation cube. as if you had a Space Mouse. Speaking of  a Space Mouse, Space Mouse is easy to use   with Shapr3D. You just have to hook  it up. On the View Orientation Cube,   you can click on Edges or Corners, or  just double click anywhere on the icon   to get to the default view. There are  a couple other grid settings we should   look at. Under the Appearance, you can  control the orthographic or perspective. view of your model. Most CAD is run completely  orthographic, but most visual representations   require a perspective view of a model. So you'll  probably want to choose something in between, and this is something you should play with on  your own to determine what works best for you.   The snap icon allows you to control the snap to  grid, which can be very useful if you're used to sketching very round numbers and it helps you  get things lined up easily. Also in this dialog, you can control the sketch guidelines which will  be the purple guidelines that show up as you   sketch. Sketch guide points will help you find the  ends or midpoints in your sketch.