Show or Hide the Perspective Grid in Illustrator

Hello Illustrator users.

Today I’m going to show you how to fix something that happens typically

by accident

especially if you’re not trying to design

using a perspective grid. All right,

so there’s a key command that especially new users will accidentally hit sometimes

and it is shift + command

I’m not an illustrator. Okay, here we go.

Shift + command + i. Alright,

so, what this does is bring up a perspective grid.

And so you’re going to be designing and then all of a sudden you’re

gonna see this, what some people describe as a vortex,

they have green lines, orange lines, blue lines,

what is this? You can’t get it to move.

You’ll find that there’s this little indicator,

you think there’s a there’s an X, so you try to click the X,

it doesn’t close. You click control or right click,

you’re like looking, how do I get rid of this?

Nothing there. You right click on the actual grid that you’re

seeing, nothing there. And so most people get frustrated and

they just try to ignore it, but they can never get it to move

and they can never get it to go away. Alright,

so what this really is. . . is under View >

Perspective Grid.

And you can see there is this key command, so it’s the shift + command + I

that makes it visible and

go away. So you can always use your

key command, but from the menu,

view > perspective grid,

you can click hide, and that will make it go away.

So unless you’re specifically seeking out the perspective grid,

you’re almost never going to come in and say perspective grid > show grid,

but you may accidentally hit that shift + command + I

keyboard command and pop up this perspective grid in

Illustrator. So if you’re seeing it and you’re thinking what in the world is

this and how do I get rid of it,

you can use your key command, or you can go to view,

perspective grid, hide. And see your design the

way you intended. Alright, I hope this tip helps.

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