# GRIDDISPLAY System Variable [GstarCAD 2018](Help%20System/GSTARCAD/2018/Index.md) → [System Variables](Help%20System/GSTARCAD/2018/System%20Variables/(System%20Variables).md) → [G](Help%20System/GSTARCAD/2018/System%20Variables/G/(G).md) ## Function Description: The GRIDDISPLAY system variable is used to control the display behavior and display limits for grids. | | | | --- | --- | | Type | Bitcode | | Saved in | Drawing | | Initial value | 2 | | Range | 0 \~ 15 | ## System Variable Value: **0:** limit the grid in the range specified by LIMITS command **1:** do not limit the grid in the rang specified by LIMITS command **2:** turn on the grid adaptive display to limit the density of grid when zoomed out **4:** if specified to be adaptive display, it may regenerate more density grid lines with the same scale as main grid space when zooming in **8:** change the grid plane to follow the XY plane of dynamic UCS **Note:** specifying the GRIDDISPLAY to be 2, or it may ignore 4\. --- ## Other versions with matching text [GstarCAD 2016](../../../2016/System%20Variables/G/GRIDDISPLAY%20System%20Variable.md) · [GstarCAD 2017](Help%20System/GSTARCAD/2017/System%20Variables/G/GRIDDISPLAY%20System%20Variable.md) · [GstarCAD 2019](Help%20System/GSTARCAD/2019/System%20Variables/G/GRIDDISPLAY%20System%20Variable.md) · [GstarCAD 2020](Help%20System/GSTARCAD/2020/System%20Variables/G/GRIDDISPLAY%20System%20Variable.md) · [GstarCAD 2021](Help%20System/GSTARCAD/2021/System%20Variables/G/GRIDDISPLAY%20System%20Variable.md) · [GstarCAD 2022](Help%20System/GSTARCAD/2022/System%20Variables/G/GRIDDISPLAY%20System%20Variable.md)