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Make "show/hide grid" available in the toolbar of the workbench

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  • December 26, 2024
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alexbiz
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I use the grid a lot in Workbench, and I often need to quickly toggle it on or off—either for clean screenshots or to help align transformers.

Right now, the process is a bit tedious:

- Click *View*
- Click *Grid and Guides…*
- Check or uncheck *Show Grid*
- Close the dialog
- Repeat every time I need to toggle it

It would be a great quality-of-life improvement to have a simple toolbar button to toggle the grid. It wouldn’t get in the way for users who don’t need it, and I imagine it wouldn’t be too complex to implement.

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JennaKAtSafe
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JennaKAtSafe
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Hi ​@abizien, this is definitely something we can look into further.

Could you share a bit more about when you prefer using Grids versus Guides?


alexbiz
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  • April 23, 2025

General best practice for me. I always use the grid when editing workspaces.

Guides can be cool when everything is alre


alexbiz
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  • April 23, 2025

*Guides can be cool when everything is already aligned and readable. But I generally will use grid in FME as well as other nodal IDE (Touchdesigner,UE,…).


alexbiz
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  • April 23, 2025

And I will usually hide grid to take screenshots/captures when writing courses or documentation.


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