david p Posted September 24, 2004 Share Posted September 24, 2004 hello- This is a problem that has been happening for the past week... If I zoom out the line weight of the drawing becomes super-enlarged. Is this a graphic problem "bug" in VW? Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted September 24, 2004 Share Posted September 24, 2004 this doesn't happen on my version of VW11.0.1 Quote Link to comment
david p Posted September 24, 2004 Author Share Posted September 24, 2004 Katie- Thank you for the reply, but I'm aware of "Zoom Line Thickness" in the VW preferences. If the drawing is working in a single line mode, and I zoom out, only a part of the drawing appears to have super thick lines. Maybe the line is 12 pt. and it looks like a 60 pt. line. Quote Link to comment
david p Posted September 24, 2004 Author Share Posted September 24, 2004 Jan15- I not sure about the "AutoCad" feature you refer to? archoncad- I have been using VW11.0.1 since the up-grade and this has just started. I'm not sure why this phenomena has started? Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted September 25, 2004 Share Posted September 25, 2004 Remove the checkmark next to "Zoom Line Thickness" in the VW preferences. When this preference is on, the lines in the drawing appear thicker when zooming in. Quote Link to comment
jan15 Posted September 25, 2004 Share Posted September 25, 2004 David: I just noticed the same thing that you described, with version 11 of the Viewer on Windows. I haven't bought the upgrade yet; I assume that the full program displays the same way. Previous versions don't do this. But in v11, thick lines become extremely thick -- cartoon-like -- when zoomed out (not in), just as in Autocad (with "Display Lineweight" selected). But fortunately selecting (not de-selecting) "Zoom Line Thickness" in Vectorworks Preferences gets rid of that Autocad-like feature. [ 09-24-2004, 02:40 PM: Message edited by: jan15 ] Quote Link to comment
jan15 Posted September 25, 2004 Share Posted September 25, 2004 David, Autocad now supports object lineweight, beginning with version 2000. The user can choose whether to display the different lineweights that have been assigned to objects (as in VectorWorks), and also can choose how much emphasis to give to the different line weights. But it you choose enough emphasis so the lineweights read properly when zoomed in, then the heavier ones become ridiculously thick when zoomed out, making the drawing unreadable. That same thing happens in VW Viewer 11 when I DON'T select "Zoom Line Thickness". Could it be that you've had that preference ON until now, and it got turned off somehow? Archoncad, Do you mean it doesn't happen even with "Zoom Line Thickness" off? And with some fairly thick lines in the drawing? Maybe this varies between operating systems. I'm on Windows. Or maybe it varies between different versions of Quicktime? Quote Link to comment
david p Posted September 27, 2004 Author Share Posted September 27, 2004 jan15- I have been using the the line zoom as long as I have been using VW. This is some kind of Graphic Bug in the program. Quote Link to comment
david p Posted September 27, 2004 Author Share Posted September 27, 2004 With the Mac... Is their a way to take a shap shoot of the screen? Quote Link to comment
CipesDesign Posted September 27, 2004 Share Posted September 27, 2004 David, To take a screenshot on a Mac type: "COMMAND+SHIFT+4". After typing the key sequence your next mouse click starts a marquee. Then drag the mouse to the opposite corner and let go. You will hear a click (like a camera). Your screenshot will be on your desktop entitled "picture 1", "picture 2", etc. To solve your problem try turning off the options"Hardware Accelerated 2d Navigation" and "Use Vector Caching". I had the same problem when scrolling from side to side and this seemed to fix it. Hope that helps Quote Link to comment
david p Posted September 29, 2004 Author Share Posted September 29, 2004 Peter, Thank you for your help. I will try with turning off these options. David Quote Link to comment
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