Overview
What is iGrid?
iGrid : Get grid for drawing over your desktop
In depth
A closer look at iGrid
iGrid plots drawing grid right over your desktop, so you can use it everywhere, with any drawing application without any special plugins for different graphics applications.Just install and run iGrid and you'll see grid plotted over entire screen: Click left mouse button on the iGrid's tray icon to show/hide the grid or right mouse button to see iGrid's menu.Choose "Settings..." and you'll see the settings dialog, where you can choose grid type between orthogonal, axonometric and handwriting, preset for each grid type and common grid parameters, like color and opacity. All the modifications you perform changes can be instantly analyzed in the preview area.Grid presets allow you to choose one of the following grid for orthogonal:· Regular small· Regular medium· Regular large· Advanced small· Advanced medium· Advanced largefor axonometric:· 30° isometric projection· 1/2 isometric projection· 30°/60° isometric projection· 45°/45° "military" isometric projection· 7°/42°/0.5 NEN/ISO dimetric projection· 30°/0.5 "chinese perspective" dimetric projection· 0.5 "side-view" dimetric projection· 0.5 "top-view" dimetric projectionand for handwriting:· Regular small· Regular medium· Regular large· School small· School medium· School large· Elementary school small· Elementary school medium· Elementary school largeYou can change all the parameters of any preset to create your own grid. Just click the source preset you want to use as a base then click the "Custom" item in the presets list and change grid parameters.Grid can be shown and hidden by click on the tray icon, but in addition you can define hot key for fast showing and hiding grid. Open Settings dialog, select the "Show/hide hot key" item and press the shortcut you want to assign
Requirements
System requirements
Windows 7 / Windows Vista / Windows XP
Verdict
Should you download iGrid?
iGrid runs on
Windows 9X/ME/2K/XP/2003/Windows 10/11
and is available under the
Time-limited Trial
license
— the installer is 277 KB.
We’ve catalogued it under
Graphics Editing and Painting.
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At a glance
iGrid specifications
- Last updated
- Nov 15, 2025
- Requirements
- Windows 7 / Windows Vista / Windows XP
- License
- Time-limited Trial
- Operating system
- Windows 9X/ME/2K/XP/2003/Windows 10/11
- File size
- 277 KB
- Price
- Free
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- 571
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