Setting Up a Drawing - AutoCAD 2011 and AutoCAD LT 2011: No Experience Required - page 80

tooltip that identifies the command that the button initiates, as shown
in Figure 3.5.

FiGuRE 3.5 Opening the UCS dialog box

2. In the UCS Icon Settings area, verify the On option is checked, as
shown in Figure 3.6, and then click OK. If you had wanted to turn the
UCS icon off, you would have unchecked the On option, and the UCS
icon would have disappeared until this setting was changed back to On.

3. Move the crosshair cursor to the status bar at the bottom of the
screen, and click the Grid Display button.
The button changes from the off to the on state (with a light blue
background), and a series of horizontal and vertical lines appear in
the drawing area, representing a piece of graph paper.

You can also control
the visibility of the
UCS icon by enter-
ing UCSICON ↵ ,
followed by OFF ↵ ,
at the command
prompt.

FiGuRE 3.6 Verifying the UCS icon visibility

These lines are the grid. They are preset by default to be ½ ″ (10 mm)
apart, and they extend from the 0,0 point (the origin) out to the right
and up to the coordinate point 1 ′ -0 ″ , 0 ′ -9 ″ (490 mm, 290 mm). In the
drawing area, the grid points may measure a greater distance apart,