How to draw a sloping grid?

Question

Could you help me make the code to draw a sloped gride like the image below in TikZ?

Here is a similar problem where the solution also applies if you want your grid to be not rotated, but skewed. http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/198352/tikz-how-to-apply-an-affine-transformation — Robin Ekman, Jun 05 '16 at 21:52

score 12 · Accepted Answer · 2016-06-19T05:40:49.937

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This draws a single grid, rotated by 45 degrees, with open lines at the outer boundary, with blue lines, the step is 0.5 units, by constructing a grid path.

If the grid boundary should be drawn, make sure the grid interval boundaries are integer multiples of the step size, say (2.5,2.5) grid (2.5,2.5), for example (not shown here, although)

The second example is just for fun: Drawing a bunch of rotated grids.

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}
\draw[step=0.5,blue,rotate=45] (-2.4,-2.4) grid (2.4,2.4);
\end{tikzpicture}

\begin{tikzpicture}
\foreach \x in {10,20,30,45,50,60,70,80} {
\draw[step=0.5,blue,rotate=\x] (-2.4,-2.4) grid (2.4,2.4);
}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}

edited Jun 19 '16 at 05:40

answered Jun 05 '16 at 18:26

@NetinhoSantos: You're welcome. Please add some starter code in future. Happy TeXinG! – Jun 05 '16 at 18:48
Why writing scale=1? I think that's the default. – Alenanno Jun 05 '16 at 18:57
@Alenanno: Ooops, that's the remainder of old code. I'll remove it. Thanks! – Jun 05 '16 at 18:58

How to draw a sloping grid?

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