Hicksdesign Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 As I'm working on a document with a lot of artboards (a large icon set with several sizes per icon), I was wondering if it was possible to have a visible grid behind all the artboards? Sometimes this is visible if you've selected an object not on an artboard, but once an artboard has been selected, it obviously changes to show the grid only within that artboard. Is there a setting somewhere that I need to check? It would make it easier to keep a neat and tidy document. At the moment it seems like the only way is to not use artboards, but labouriously setup slice areas on one large document. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 I think one of the reasons for not showing grids outside of Artboards is because you can have different grid settings per artboard. Could you not create lines like ruled paper outside the bounds of the document to snap the icons too? Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hicksdesign Posted March 4, 2019 Author Share Posted March 4, 2019 There's probably a few workarounds, but I wondered if the option was there and I'd just missed it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted March 4, 2019 Share Posted March 4, 2019 No, you haven't missed it, it's not there as far as I'm aware. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hicksdesign Posted March 5, 2019 Author Share Posted March 5, 2019 Thanks for confirmation Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 A kind of hack is possible for both @Hicksdesign and @PatrickM You just have to play with the gray backgrounds in Preferences. Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joachim_L Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 Life is full of compromises..;D Make a big page, activate the grid for it and place your Artboards on it. Should work? Quote ------ Windows 10 | i5-8500 CPU | Intel UHD 630 Graphics | 32 GB RAM | Latest Retail and Beta versions of complete Affinity range installed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 3, 2020 Share Posted January 3, 2020 51 minutes ago, PatrickM said: My request would be the opposite : is it possible to see the grid(s) only within an artboard and not outside ? Can't find a way to hide it... That's a bug in the Windows version of Deigner: Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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