GridZoom is a plug-in for Lightwave 6.0 or greater. It simply provides some alternate ways to cycle through the available tools and edit modes in Layout. It contains nine plug-ins, Grid Zoom In, Grid Zoom Out, Grid Zoom In (More), Grid Zoom Out (More), Grid Zoom In (Double), Grid Zoom Out (Double), Grid To 10.0m, Grid To 1.0m and Grid To 0.1m. This plug-in requires Lightwave 6.0 or greater.

To install GridZoom, just follow these steps:

• If any copies of Layout are running, quit them now.
• Create a new directory in your Lightwave Plugins directory called TMPro and copy GridZoom.p into it.
• Load Layout
• Select Add Plug-ins.
• Find and add GridZoom.p. Layout should report that two plug-ins have been added.
• Quit Layout. This will update your Lightwave config and ensure that everything works properly.
• The next time you run Layout, you can launch the GridZoom plug-ins from the Generics pop-up in the Plug-in Options Panel, or assign them to keys or buttons on the interface with Configure Keys and Configure Menus. Please refer to your Lightwave documentation for more information. The plug-ins will be the prefixed with TM_P under the Plugins heading of the Configure Keys and Configure Menus panels.

GridZoom includes the following plugins:

Grid Zoom In
Grid Zoom Out

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Grid Zoom In and Grid Zoom Out attempt to counter the effects of the viewport zoom changing while adjusting the grid size. Each activation will cause the grid size to change one step one way and the zoom to change two steps the other way. The effect is that the apparent size of objects in Layout won't change too much, but you'll have a different level of percision when moving items interactivly.

Grid Zoom In (More)
Grid Zoom Out (More)

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Grid Zoom In (More) and Grid Zoom Out (More) are more extreme versions of Grid Zoom In and Grid Zoom Out. These attempt to change the zoom amount by less than just changing the grid size would.

Grid Zoom In (Double)
Grid Zoom Out (Double)

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Grid Zoom In (Double) and Grid Zoom Out (Double) will double the normal effect of changing the grid size, zooming the view twice as much as just changing the grid size would.

Grid To 10.0m
Grid To 1.0m
Grid To 0.1m

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Grid To 10.0m, Grid To 1.0m and Grid To 0.1m provide one-click access to some common grid sizes, changing it to ten meters, one meter and one centimeter, respectivly

Bugs? Feature requests? Can't get it to work? Feel free to contact us if you're having any problems or want to request a feature.