# Grids **Panel:** Grids And Levels | **Menu:** Grids button icon Tools for controlling grid bubble visibility and grid extents in the active view. All of these act on the **active view** only, and on the grids visible in it. --- ## Show Bubbles Start icon Show Bubbles Start Switches **on** the bubble at the start end (end 0) of every grid visible in the active view. It only turns bubbles on; it never turns one off. --- ## Show Bubbles End icon Show Bubbles End Switches **on** the bubble at the finish end (end 1) of every grid visible in the active view. --- ## All Bubbles Off icon All Bubbles Off Hides the bubbles at **both ends** of every grid visible in the active view. --- ## All Grids to 2D icon All Grids to 2D Sets both ends of every grid visible in the active view to **2D**, so that extent and bubble changes made in this view no longer affect other views. --- ## Toggle Bubbles Start icon Toggle Bubbles Start ## Toggle Bubbles End icon Toggle Bubbles End Toggles the bubble at end 0 (Start) or end 1 (End) for **grids you pick**. Run the tool first — it starts a pick prompt ("Select Grids") filtered to the Grids category. Pick the grids, finish the selection, and their bubbles at that end are flipped: on becomes off, off becomes on. There is no need to pre-select anything before launching. --- ## Extend Grids icon Extend Grids Extends linear grids in the active view out to the **view's crop box**. **Requirements:** - The active view must be a **Floor Plan, Ceiling Plan or Area Plan**. - The view's **crop box must be enabled** — the crop region is what the grids are extended to. - Only linear grids are handled; arc grids are left alone. --- ## Propagate Grids icon Propagate Grids Copies grid bubble visibility and grid extents from the **active view** to views you select. **Workflow:** 1. Set the grid display up exactly as you want it in the source view. 2. Run **Propagate Grids**. 3. Select the target views from the list — entries are shown as `view name (view type)`. **Requirements:** - The **active view** must be a Floor Plan, Ceiling Plan or Area Plan; the tool exits with an "Unsupported active view type" message otherwise. - Only Floor Plans, Ceiling Plans and Area Plans are offered as targets. Sections, elevations and 3D views cannot be targeted. Progress is shown in a cancellable progress bar. --- ## Notes - Grids set to 3D share their extents across views. Run **All Grids to 2D** in a view first if you want changes there to stay local to it. - **Propagate Grids** is the efficient way to apply one grid setup across many plan views; the per-view tools above are for setting up that one source view. - If a tool reports "No grids visible in view", check the view's crop, view range and category visibility — the tools only see grids the view actually shows.