Under your specified building/unit, there should be 2 fields - Pathing and Pathing - Placement. I haven't tried either of them, but I'd hazard a guess that Pathing would be the area from the center which is unpathable for ground units, and Pathing - Placement is the size of the placement grid
EX: I have a civilian tower that is 1x1 footpath set to pathing place meant, so if you go to view and go to show pathing grid it will only take up 1 of those squares, in game it gets autolocked to those squares. The problem I have at the moment(which I haven't tried to fix yet) is that in scII campaing or melee it shows the grid the building takes up when placing and that isn't showing using the Pathing - Placement.
I'm on a page about incorrect corrections, and spent the better part of like two hours trying to get someone to understand that -5^2 = -25, not 25, and then that post had comments get reposted because that group is self sustaining, and that person was in turn trying to explain what I just explained to them. And I'm taking that as a victory
I will be AFK for a couple of days you guys hold down the fort while I am gone. I will be checking in on my phone but that will severly limit me. Be back saturday!