The grid is there so you can see movement of the canvas when there are no components around. Also, I found it gives a reasonable indication of zoom-scale.
In very early versions of Grasshopper (back when it was called Explicit History) the grid actually had units. The vertical lines had 'generation' numbers. Initially the idea was to only allow connections to components that occupied a higher generation value, and all components would be skewered on a generation line. I abandoned this approach because it was incredibly annoying. The grid somehow stuck. I suppose at some point in the distant future we'll expose a lot of colour and UI options for customization. I'm not looking forward to write that code... settings UI is soooo boring! :-) -- David Rutten [email protected] Robert McNeel & Associates On Mar 19, 2:01 am, Mat <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks David, print is exactly what I'm going for. Need to make a > presentation to some faculty at the university I'm at. Those > background changes should deffinitely help. > > Quick side note question, is there any way to snap to the grid on the > current canvas background? I love the look, but I always find myself > saying why is it there if you can't snap to it! lol. > > On Mar 18, 8:06 pm, David Rutten <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Mat, > > > if you're making screenshots for purposes of print, you may want to > > override the canvas background drawing. > > > I added two new registry settings in Grasshopper 0.6 called: > > > CustomBackground > > CustomBackgroundColor > > > you'll find them in this registry folder: > > > HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\McNeel\Rhinoceros\4.0\Scheme: Default\Plug- > > ins\b45a29b1-4343-4035-989e-044e8580d9cf\Settings\ > > > Change the value of CustomBackground to bln-True > > The default custom background is solid white. If you want another > > colour, also change the CustomBackgroundColor setting. The 4 integers > > represent Alpha-Red-Green-Blue (in that order). So if you want perky > > orange instead, change it to col-255;255;155;0 > > > You have to restart Grasshopper for these changes to work. > > > I'll probably at some point write a bitmap exporter for the canvas. It > > shouldn't be all that difficult since the drawing code is all there > > and reasonably flexible already. > > > -- > > David Rutten > > [email protected] > > Robert McNeel & Associates > > > On Mar 19, 12:52 am, Mat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > That sounds good. I was trying to avoid that;) but will have to do. > > > lol. Thanks again. > > > > On Mar 18, 7:50 pm, visose <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I had to create an image of a very large definition for an > > > > architecture competition. I did it by zooming the canvas to 100%, > > > > taking screenshots of every part of the definition (don't change zoom, > > > > only pan) and pasting all together in photoshop. > > > > > On Mar 18, 10:35 pm, Mat <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I'm still new to this, bare with me and thanks. But just wondering how > > > > > to "save as .jpg" or some image file, from grasshopper? Like when you > > > > > see tutorials and they give a screen shot of the family tree of their > > > > > grasshopper string. I would just screen shot it, but its so large I > > > > > can't get good resolution, is that how they do it? Thanks.
