Dashed preview, why?!

Hi guys, I've a problem. I don't know why I've a dashed preview instead of usual red line. Maybe I press unknowingly something ...

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 14, 2013 at 10:12am

As far as I recall only the Point List component draws dashes lines between points. Perhaps it is one of those? The difference between PointList dashed lines is that they are dashed in screen-space, they always look the same no matter how far away you are. The component which creates dashed curves however uses specific lengths for the dashes and gaps.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Landscape on March 14, 2013 at 10:19am

I placed an Eval Curve, then I removed it and now remained this :-(

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 14, 2013 at 11:00am

I'm out of ideas then. Does the problem persist if you restart Rhino?

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on March 14, 2013 at 7:36pm

do you have edit points turned on for some geometry inside rhino? The Grasshopper curve preview turns dashed when an object in rhino has its control points turned on...

Permalink Reply by Landscape on March 15, 2013 at 7:57am

Hi guys, I restarted Rhino some times yesterday ... but problem persist. Today, I switched on my Windows XP and works fine. Thank U for your reply!! ;-)

Permalink Reply by LBeverly on February 25, 2014 at 12:37pm

I know this is an old discussion but edit points was the problem for me. Thanks Andrew.

Permalink Reply by Andrea Graziano on September 7, 2013 at 5:41am

It happened also to me sometimes when I place the 'point list' component on the canvas ...

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on September 7, 2013 at 6:27am

Hi Andrea,

I think that might be the problem. From what little I know about OpenGL, it's possible to assign a property to the device (say, dashed lines) and then unless you forget to unset that property everything will be drawn dashed from then on.

I can repeat the problem with a PointList and temporary preview geometry:

Add a PointList object and add some points.
Create a new Rectangle parameter
Select 'Set Multiple Rectangles' and the ones you've drawn will be dashed.

However then the actual rectangles will be fine. So it seems like this might be an OGL state problem. I'll talk to Steve to see if the problem is with me or RhinoCommon.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Tirol, Austria

Permalink Reply by Andrew Kudless on January 28, 2014 at 5:37pm

David,

Just checking if you had an update on this bug? I am also experiencing the same issue with the PointList component making curves become dashed in the the preview. When I delete the PointList component, the curves come back to normal.

Thanks,

Andrew

Permalink Reply by nishant pandav on July 1, 2016 at 9:33am