A plugin to help working with vertical grids in Sketch

Download

Download here, extract zip-file and double click on ‘BootstrapHelpers.sketchplugin’ or install with Sketch Runner.

Functionality

1. Draw a bootstrap grid

1. Select an artboard or layer
2. Select Grid without outer gutter (CTRL + Shift+ 0) or Grid with outer gutter (CTRL + Shift+ CMD + 0)

2. Move and in-/decrease width of layers according to the vertical grid

General idea: To move or in-/decrease the with of a selected layer, you have to have a folder named ‘CU$T0M-GR1D’ with a grid (=some rectanlges) as a sibling or ancestor of the selected layer(s).

• Move selected layer(s) left (Shortcut: CTRL + Shift+ ←)
• Move selected layer(s) right (CTRL + Shift+ →)
• Increase selected layer(s) in width (CTRL + Shift+ +)
• Decrease selected layer(s) in width (CTRL + Shift+ -)

You can draw a custom grid (within a folder named ‘CU$T0M-GR1D’) as well:

3. Toggle visibility of the grid(s)

• Un-/Hide (CMD + Shift+ 1)

Ideas for improvement

• Add UI to adjust ** Grid color/opacity ** Grid tiers ** Gutter width ** Amount of columns (?)
• Functionality to left/right align layer(s) to grid/to each other
• …

Compatibility

The plugin is compatible with Sketch 53.x

Donations

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Contact

If you have any questions or troubles with our product, please feel free to open an issue here. But be aware that I have unfortunately very limited resources to work on that plugin.

Licence

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright 2017 Konstantin Demblin

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