1. I would like to create a rectangular grid with 5px spacing in which minor grid lines are grey and every 10th line is a major grid line in red. For now, I am stumbling right here. While I can create a 5px grid, I am unable to set different colors for major and minor grid lines.
2. Going further, I would like the 0,0 for the grid to be in the center of the page so that I have -125 to 125 in the x direction and -100 to 100 in the y direction.
3. Finally, and this is where the "smart" part comes in -- I would like to draw polygons and points on this grid and have their vertices labeled with their coordinates. Is this possible?
Even if #3 above is not possible, I would like to accomplish 1 and 2 above, and then I can manually count and label the vertices.
For point 1, go into File > Document Properties, then select the Grid tab. You can customise the grid here. I see there is an option to set Origin X & Y, so hopefully that helps with point 2 (I've never used this, so I'm not certain). I don't have an answer for point 3. Perhaps someone else can assist with that.
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1. I would like to create a rectangular grid with 5px spacing in which minor grid lines are grey and every 10th line is a major grid line in red. For now, I am stumbling right here. While I can create a 5px grid, I am unable to set different colors for major and minor grid lines.
2. Going further, I would like the 0,0 for the grid to be in the center of the page so that I have -125 to 125 in the x direction and -100 to 100 in the y direction.
3. Finally, and this is where the "smart" part comes in -- I would like to draw polygons and points on this grid and have their vertices labeled with their coordinates. Is this possible?
Even if #3 above is not possible, I would like to accomplish 1 and 2 above, and then I can manually count and label the vertices.
Many thanks in advance.
For point 1, go into File > Document Properties, then select the Grid tab. You can customise the grid here. I see there is an option to set Origin X & Y, so hopefully that helps with point 2 (I've never used this, so I'm not certain). I don't have an answer for point 3. Perhaps someone else can assist with that.