2.9 The Grid

  The grid facilitates the alignment of the shapes in the drawing area. Only the diagram and tree editors have the Grid menu because tables are aligned in a different way. The grid cannot be printed. The options of the Grid menu are settings of the editor and therefore they are not saved to file when a document is saved. The Grid menu contains the following entries: 

•   Show Grid. Draw or hide the grid in the drawing area. The grid is visible as a raster of dashed vertical and horizontal lines at an equal distance. This distance is called the grid size.
•   Grid Size. Set the size of the grid with a pop-up slider dialog. The default grid size is 30 pixels.
•   Point Snapping. When point snapping is on, the positions of the shapes are constrained to discrete positions at a certain point distance. When point snapping is off, the shapes can be placed at any position.
•   Point Distance. Set the point distance with a pop-up slider dialog. The default is 10 pixels. The point distance is used when point snapping is on. The grid size and the point distance are independent from each other.