Quickly Toggle a Perspective Grid’s Visibility
Tips and Tricks | August 24th, 2010
The Perspective Grid Feature is a nice addition to Illustrator CS5. With any new feature, it’s a good idea to get familiar with keyboard shortcuts so you can use the new feature more efficiently and cut down the learning curve. One tip that is helpful when using a perspective grid is to quickly toggle a perspective grid’s visibility.
Toggle a Perspective Grid’s Visibility
When using the Perspective Grid Tool (Shift +P) or the Perspective Selection Tool (Shift +V), hold down the Alt / Option key, and click the one of the any of grid plane widgets to toggle between line, solid, and invisible. Take a look at the images below to get an idea of where the grid planes are and the difference between line, solid, and invisible.
Grid Planes
Line, Solid, Invisible
Nice info to that’s grid. But I don’t have Illustration CS5 Right now..
>_<
Just a quicky – one thing that bugged me and i could not instantly find a obvious solution for (probably in my rush)…
I accidentally clicked a button to turn this perspective grid on… But could find no way of turning it off – might be a bug in my version, but nothing worked – any ideas!
It’s probably not a bug, it’s just a little awkward to hide it. You can go View > Perspective Grid > Hide Grid. I like to use the keyboard shortcut “Command Shift I”.
thanks for that! i’ve had the same trouble a few times and it drove me batty
Just started using CS5 and ran into the same issue as above!… I was in a rush so I had to just make a new document. Thanks for this tip.
I never knew you could do that. Thanks…