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title: "How to Design Pixel Perfect Elementor Designs with Grid Design Tool?"
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date: 2023-12-26
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description: "Do you want pixel perfect conversion of your design into an Elementor website? The Design Tool widget from The Plus Addons for Elementor can help you in pixel perfect conversion..."
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# How to Design Pixel Perfect Elementor Designs with Grid Design Tool?

## 

- Utilizes the Design Tool widget from The Plus Addons for Elementor for pixel perfect conversion in Elementor.
- Requires the PRO version of The Plus Addons for Elementor and the Elementor FREE Plugin to activate the Design Tool widget.
- Offers customizable grid layouts with options for Default and Custom grid systems, including direction and column settings.

Do you want pixel perfect conversion of your design into an Elementor website? The Design Tool widget from The Plus Addons for Elementor can help you in pixel perfect conversion with the help of a grid guide inside the Elementor editor.

You can easily customize the grid structure to match with your design grid.

[LIVE WIDGET LINK](https://theplusaddons.com/elementor-extras/elementor-grid-design-tool//?utm_source=tpae&utm_medium=docs&utm_campaign=text)

## Required Setup

- [Elementor FREE Plugin](http://wordpress.org/plugins/elementor/) installed & activated.

- You need to have [The Plus Addons for Elementor](http://wordpress.org/plugins/the-plus-addons-for-elementor-page-builder/) plugin installed and activated.

- This is a Premium widget, and you need the [PRO version of The Plus Addons for Elementor.](https://theplusaddons.com/pricing//?utm_source=tpae&utm_medium=docs&utm_campaign=text)

- Make sure the Design Tool widget is activated, to verify this visit The Plus Addons → Widgets → and Search for Design Tool and activate.

## Learn via Video Tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL36KplDhVo

## How to Activate the Design Tool Widget?

Go to 

- **The Plus Addons **→** Widgets **

- **Search **the widget name** **and** turn on the toggle.**

![](https://theplusaddons.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/design-tool-1024x359.png)

## Key Features

- **Add grid guide **- You can easily add a grid guide inside the Elementor editor and front end for a pixel perfect conversion.

- **Custom grid** - You can easily customize the grid layout as per your requirements.

## How to Use the Design Tool Widget in Elementor?

To use the Design Tool widget, add the widget to the page then follow the steps - 

1. In the **Design Tool Option** dropdown, you’ll have **Grid System** selected.

2. Then from the **Grid System** dropdown, you’ll have to select the grid system. Here you’ll find two options - 

**Default** - This will add a grid layout guide based on the Bootstrap grid layout units.

**Custom** - With this option, you can add a custom grid layout guide.

Let’s select Custom here.

![design tool content](https://theplusaddons.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/design-tool-content.gif)

Then from the **Direction** dropdown, you have to select the grid layout direction. Here you’ll see two options - 

**Left to Right** - To add a vertical grid layout guide.

**Top to Bottom** - To add a horizontal grid layout guide. 

In the **Maximum Width** field, you can set a custom width for the grid layout.

Then in the **Grid System Columns** field, you can set the number of columns for different devices.

You can change the grid columns color from the **Grid System Columns Background Color** section.

From the **Alley Space** section, you can customize the gap between the columns.

Then from the **Alley Background Color** section, you can change the column gap background color.

If you’ve selected the Left to Right direction you’ll see the **Offset** field. From here you can add an offset value to the grid layout guide from left and right.

Then by enabling the **Display Grid System on Front** toggle, you can show the gride guide in the front end as well. 

![design tool demo](https://theplusaddons.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/design-tool-demo-1024x559.png)

Advanced options remain common for all our widget, you can explore all it options from here.

[View Advanced tab tutorial.](https://docs.posimyth.com/tpae/advanced-tab/)