Perspective Grid in Illustrator

I accidentally clicked on the Perspective Grid and now I cannot get it off my workspace. How do I get rid of it? What is this feature anyhow?!
Thanks, Ben

Funny how you find someone who is giving you good advice as scoldig you. Certainly if you did not have access to the help fles on lne and ou tried that and you usually use the help files I would have thought you would have mentioned it in your first post..
Perhaps it was too much trouble.
I am glad you were able to figure it out..
BTW if the help files do not work nex time you can try doin a search on google.
I find it hard to believe that a user that has been using Illustrator since 2007 does not one know wha the prespective grid is and two does not know to do a google search if the files fail. It really is hard to believe.
This just a part of what a googke search will give you I would suggest that you ive it a try so you can get use to the idea thatthere are other users that have gone through a lot of trouble to post this information and it is a shame that there ae are many user IMO who let it go to waste because…well I don't know why.
I know a fair amount about Illustratro and the other Adobe apps and when I need help I do like most users I use the help files and or do a search the user to user forum is best used for issues that might not be available that way or for a user who has tried but just missed something and needs to be pointed in the right direction.
But I am glad youy were able to figure it out.\
I will give you som information about the hiding and showing the perspective grid there is a keyboard shortcut/toggle for this as well. Itis easuily found out.

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I'm new to Illustrator and finding my way around. I found one of the tutorial examples referencing this article on the use of a perspective grid to create a graphic:
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I think I got it now how he created the grid that he used. I believe what he did was use a 2 point Perspective Grid, and then moved the vanishing points so that they were (almost) together, creating a single point.
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Thank you for your comment. I have changed the location of the widget to the bottom left now so you can see it in the screenshot.
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Mac10.5.8
I want to delete a user-defined preset Perspective Grid Preset.
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http://help.adobe.com/en_US/illustrator/cs/using/WSb8134070d1ccd4cc-123066e6124d7ca3149-80 00.html
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Yippee! It worked.
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CF,
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Thanks, that's what I was looking for. Though I have to admit it took me a half hour to get it to work.
And it's still clunky to work with. I don't think I'll be using it much.
And I haven't been able to summon that dialog you show. I've tried double clicking everything with either Grid tool selected. I'm just not seeing it.
Thank you, anyway. I wouldn't dare using the Perpective Tool without this feature.
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Will,
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Thanks, that's what I was looking for. Though I have to admit it took me a half hour to get it to work.
And it's still clunky to work with. I don't think I'll be using it much.
And I haven't been able to summon that dialog you show. I've tried double clicking everything with either Grid tool selected. I'm just not seeing it.
Thank you, anyway. I wouldn't dare using the Perpective Tool without this feature.
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Thanks for responding so quickly. I guess what I'm trying to say is that what I'm trying to create would be from a perspective of going "into" the distance and the PG is showing coming "out" of the distance. Does that help? Is there a way to rotate the perspective to swing it around the other way? Thanks again!

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This has been confounding my for more time than I care to admit. How would I set up a Perspective Grid for something like this? I don't know where to begin. I'm used to drawing simlple buildings from an eye-level view, but obviously with something like this, the viewer is looking way up .

Hello Cheryl,
This is technically a 3P perspective; you mentioned the viewer is looking way up - such a scene is called worm's eye view.
I tried setting up a grid over the image. The point where the two red lines meet is the third Vanishing Point. The two other VPs are to be located by extending the two yellow and the two green lines till they intersect in the direction shown by the two arrows. However this will be at an infinite distance and this way the view can be thought of as 1P perspective as Jet & Michael have opined. Remember that camera lenses can create skewed and distorted perspective. Illustrator's grid cannot match that. Moreover Illustrator's grid is also limited by the application's canvas size i.e., the entire grid has to fit in the canvas. When drawing on a sheet of paper you can actually visualize one or more VP out of your drawing sheet.
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