Adobe Illustrator

Lesson A: Create Plaid Fabric

Grid Setup

• 1 Set the General units in your preferences to millimeters.
• 2 Set the grid layout in preferences to Gridline every: 100 mm and Subdivisions: 10. This creates heavier grid lines with lighter grid lines for the subdivisions. You can uncheck the Grids in Back preference if you want to see the grid in front of your artwork.
• 3 Select Show Grid to see the grid. Turn on the Snap to Grid function in the View menu. 

  
• 4 Each grid line will be a darker gray and the subdivisions will be a lighter gray. I refer to each darker gray section as a unit (the ten units by ten units) and each individual square a subunit. ...