Common grid on layout for multiple detail views

Rhino Developer
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I would like a grid on the layout page common for multiple detail views.
see image (manually edited using paint)

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Each mesh is a detail view lying on a common grid on the layout.

any suggestions or alternate ideas to accomplish this?

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Perhaps you can use a conduit and draw the grid on the layout?

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thanks for the suggestion. will try it out

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Tried conduit as suggested by @dale and it works perfectly.

but I do have a concern.

the conduit grid is drawn over the objects in the detail view.
This line doesn’t work
e.Display.DepthMode = DepthMode.AlwaysInBack;

the grid needs to be behind the objects.
What do I set so that the conduit is drawn behind?

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Are you performing your drawing in an overridden PreDrawObjects function?

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yes i am.
you can see the grid is drawn over the polyline curve in the detail view.

to resolve my query "common grid on layout for multiple details views’, I would expect the grid to be behind the detail views.

now, the next question would be, if conduit draws over the details views, then we are back to the beginning to resolve the query.
any other ideas?

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Are you checking to see if you are in a nested viewport when drawing the grid? I’m not at a computer at the moment so I can’t really type up an example

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what do you mean by ‘nested viewport’?

i will wait for a working example from you.

thank you.

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hi @stevebaer,

Are you checking to see if you are in a nested viewport when drawing the grid? I’m not at a computer at the moment so I can’t really type up an example

you had mentioned about this in July and i havent heard from you.

Could you kindly help to resolve my issue to graw the the grid behind the layout.
kindly provide some sample code.