nick lawrence Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Hi all! A frustrating issue has arisen. I am working on a large project across two offices. I set up a drawing with a structural grid of lines for everyone to work to. One of my colleagues noticed that the lines were not displaying 100% properly on his screen. On investigation he set the accuracy to the maximum number of decimal places and found a 0.000000035 inaccuracy. I know this sounds pedantic and doesn't matter in terms of real world construction, but is very frustrating in the CAD world. I drew all of these lines constrained with the shift key and they still were not straight. I have tried drawing rotated, un rotated, in clean files etc and I get this strange inaccuracy creeping in. Not all the time, but say 70% of lines drawn. My colleagues in the other office do not have the same issue. Is this a known bug? If so how can i fix it? Thanks Nick Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted February 23, 2015 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 23, 2015 If you had snap to grid enabled, its possible the snap for that may have caught accidentally when creating them. If you draw a perfectly straight line in a new blank file, then duplicate it in an array, then duplicate/rotate to create the grid, are the lines perfectly straight or do some/all exhibit the same problem? Quote Link to comment
nick lawrence Posted February 23, 2015 Author Share Posted February 23, 2015 Hey, thanks for the reply. No, snap to grid is definitely off... i never actually use it. The problem seems to be only when working on a 'rotated plan'. And yes, if i draw a totally straight line and duplicate array some of the duplicates seem to have moved off straight. This is also true for the duplicated and rotated lines. Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted February 23, 2015 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 23, 2015 Ahhh rotated plan. Sorry, didn't notice that in the earlier post. I have seen this before with that enabled, I'll add this to that case. Quote Link to comment
nick lawrence Posted February 23, 2015 Author Share Posted February 23, 2015 So is it a bug to just live with for the time being? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted February 23, 2015 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 23, 2015 If you can create the lines in non-rotated plan and they remain straight after rotating the plan, then I would use that as the workaround for now, yes. Quote Link to comment
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