Right now my workflow has become a bit mired in what i'm hoping is needless camera pans back to the perspective view grid so that I can create new primitives to add to my scene.

I'm wondering if anyone knows of a way to create a primitive a set distance from the camera, or to just get primitives created and add a specific location on screen without having to constantly run back to the grid to create them, or jump into quad view.

Ah I just figured this out, you need to use the autogrid option