small objects, BIG GRID?
 

My students have a minor problem that I can't seem to solve.

When they create small objects I'll have them set up Units to inches and the Grid to 4 or 8 squares per inch. That works out fine.

But when they switch to a different view (Top, Left, Front) the object initially appears tiny in a giant grid. It only take a couple seconds to zoom in, but doing that over & over again is a bit tedious.

What determines to overall size of the grid or how large the object will appear when you switch to a different view?

Re: small objects, BIG GRID?
 

the shortcut of "z" will zoom extents of the all objects in the scen if nothing is selected, or zoom extents of the object selected.

Re: small objects, BIG GRID?
 

Yeah - we've been doing that. I just thought there was some way to set the overall size of the grid so we wouldn't have to zoom in so often on small parts.

Re: small objects, BIG GRID?
 

Top, left, and front has a giant grid. Your objects will appear small

Re: small objects, BIG GRID?
 

View settings get messed up so much. Z for Zoom Extents, and T(op), F(ront), R(ight), P(erspective) are just things that become second-nature for fixing the view. Oh, and Shift-Z.