<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>A guess. </div><div><br></div><div>The x and y parameters are in "map units" or the project's projection. </div><div><br></div><div>So if you have a large scale, in a projected CRS, then QGIS will try and draw a grid line in every three feet/meters. Very time consuming. <br><br>-ramon.</div><div><br>On 03/08/2012, at 11:08, Chandra Shekhar Balachandran <<a href="mailto:csbalachandran@gmail.com">csbalachandran@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Following Tim Sutton's email, I am adding a little more descriptin of what has been happening. Separately i will share the actual shape files. Attaching both into one message went over the size limit.<br><br>I was not sure if attachments would be ok or not. Upon Tim Sutton's
suggestion, I am attaching the actual data files and clarifying my
situation further, below. <br><br>In the mac, in the composer where I start setting grid parameters, <br>
<ol><li>i select to display grid, </li><li>then the grid type (i select
crosses) -- actually i am trying to get only tics on the edges with
nothing on the map (crosses or full lines), but of the options
available, crosses are my choice<br>
</li><li>then i come to "Interval X" and enter a value, say 2 or 3<br></li><li>next, I come to "Interval Y" and enter the same value <br></li><li>and
then the system hangs; often i can't even enter the Y value because the
system hangs as soon as i put the cursor in the field.</li><li>i tried doing things in different order after selecting 'grid' --
thinking it may be some kind of quirk in my installation that i can work
around. invariably, the 2nd or 3rd step after selecting 'grid' causes
the machine to hang.</li></ol>In the PC, i had already tried right-clicking on the blank space to
get back the item properties box, but it hadn't worked. Hence my
question in the posting.<br><br>Thanks.<br>CSB<br>
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