In theory it's a great idea. ..but sadly another half baked idea. If your editing drums and want to edit to a 16th note grid you can't zoom in too where it's actually useful because you will be editing on a 128th noted grid@ #&$@.
If we could just have Cake put an upper and lower limit on what we see on the grid, we could hypothetically zoom in as far as we want and only ever se 8ths or 16ths on the grid.
Does this make sense??? Ive made this a feature requeat a few times now to no avail.
Anyone else care to fight this one with me?

I haven't used smart grid very much, but I agree it would be great to be able to tailor the snap resolution of the smart grid depending on one's needs.  
 
As a workaround, have you tried setting a secondary snap resolution to something more useful for you, such as 16th notes?  That way you could toggle between the smart grid and your specified resolution.  Haven't tried this myself so I don't know it works in practice, but seems useful in theory.
 
http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation/default.aspx?Doc=SONAR%20X2&Lang=EN&Req=Arranging.28.html#1470987

I hated it at first and always turned it off but I'm starting to use it more. Just gotta be aware of it and how far you are zoomed in. For specific stuff like you are mentioning where I need it constrained though I'd turn it off. Being able to adjust how far it goes would be nice.

 
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Great. Now I have to go to the free clinic.

Bahahahaa LOL. Paris sums it up perfectly:)

neirbod
I haven't used smart grid very much, but I agree it would be great to be able to tailor the snap resolution of the smart grid depending on one's needs.   As a workaround, have you tried setting a secondary snap resolution to something more useful for you, such as 16th notes?  That way you could toggle between the smart grid and your specified resolution.  Haven't tried this myself so I don't know it works in practice, but seems useful in theory. http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation/default.aspx?Doc=SONAR%20X2&Lang=EN&Req=Arranging.28.html#1470987

Yes that's what I have to do, but this is supposed to be"Smart". In a DAw this mature, and a feature that was marketed as such.... a work around seems downright ridiculous when it was so close to being perfect. Very depressing

I think it needs to be remembered that this is art as well as craft...

For the most part I've had to turn off smart grid and any tools like it (auto zoom is one for me)...

Trying to guess my circumstantial needs is beyond my own ability even if we could set such...

That being said, I use mostly the same snap settings... One setting for TV and another for PRV... It is awkward to work on some pieces/situations where I must change back and forth to different settings such as in PRV needs for some phrases that require triplets or the likes, but that is infrequent for me...

So it's simple for me to simply disable it and ignore it with a sigh thinking all that features development time could have gone into redesigning Lanes and Zoom! <sigh>...

Keni

It would even be nice to just be able to show a grid that WE want. Leave the snap setting where they are and for example show 8th note triplets instead of the default quarter notes. Watch someone editing drums in Profools and and you'll know what you're missing.
I'm not throwing the baby out with the bath water. ..but this could have easily been something that EVEYONE used and just left on. It could be indispensable.