Alan Cooper Posted March 26, 2016 Share Posted March 26, 2016 I want to display a grid at 100mm centres overlaid on my model. This is easy to do and it displays well when laid orthographically but not very well if at an angle. See comparison attached displayed as wireframe. I wonder if there is a way round this? FZ pro 8.5.03 Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted March 27, 2016 Share Posted March 27, 2016 Hi Alan, We are not reproducing what you show. Can you please save the file with a view that is not displaying the Guides properly and send it so we can take a look? And if you want a regular grid like that, why not just use the Reference Plane Grid -- and Grid Snaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cooper Posted March 27, 2016 Author Share Posted March 27, 2016 Hi Tech, Firstly, I don't think the problem is particularly isolated to grid snaps. There is a general display problem in shaded work display where one needs to zoom in or out experimentally until a reasonable display is reached. At many zoom levels a lot of content is invisible, which is a regular frustration including parts of the guides when at an angle. See multiple zoom level example screen captures attached. It seems very easy to produce a grid which aligns with my model by using the multiple copy tool, so tampering with the reference plane grid and grid snaps which I rarely use at all seems a greater effort, especially as it doesn't extend very far without adjusting settings, as seen in the last screen capture. My display is a 17 inch windows laptop at the recommended 1920x1080 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Hi Alan, Well, that definitely is not normal. Please post a file that is saved with a view where this is not displaying properly on your computer so we can take a look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cooper Posted March 28, 2016 Author Share Posted March 28, 2016 Here you go. Also a screenshot of zoom options and a link to a short video where I am intermittently pressing zoom in by increment shortcut. http://www.screencast.com/t/25ki8fJ8ao ShadedWorkZoomVariation.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cooper Posted March 28, 2016 Author Share Posted March 28, 2016 Sorry, the file displayed ok in the view saved in the first posted attachment, the one attached here, version 2 is one zoom level different and is not displaying correctly. ShadedWorkZoomVariation2.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Hi Alan, Thanks for posting this FMZ file. We have verified that this issue can occur in Shaded Mode at specific zoom factors on one of our computers. Thanks for your report, we will get this corrected. However, we tried to reproduce the original issues you showed above with the objects or guides in Wire Frame, and we did not reproduce this with your file, or ours. If you have a case where this occurs, please post that FMZ file so we can take a look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cooper Posted March 28, 2016 Author Share Posted March 28, 2016 Hi Tec, I have found the guide line problem in wire frame to be true in that same file. Simply draw a guide line snapping to 2 points on one of the existing object lines which has perpendicular elements. Then create parallel guide lines by turning on multiple copy with 20 instances, starting the copy with the mouse intersecting the same point as before, and move the mouse to a perpendicular point but don't click, instead type 100 for a 100mm guide line interval and press Enter. Various zoom levels display a variety of guide line visibility / invisibility. ShadedWorkZoomVariation3.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Hi Alan, We are still not reproducing this. Please RUN: dxdiag -- and post a screen capture of the System and Display Tabs so we can investigate this further. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cooper Posted March 28, 2016 Author Share Posted March 28, 2016 Screen captures sent by email to FZ support Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted March 28, 2016 Share Posted March 28, 2016 Yes, and we researched it and replied back... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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