Good idea :)

All I "want" is for the program to do as expected and according to the user manual. I know there appears to be a differance between the PC and Mac version so bugs in one do not always show in the other. But you do have to realise that new users only have 2 weeks to trial the product, and as they say "first impressions",..... and as with normal installation agreement (have not checked viacad) that the trial can only be installed once on specific hardware.

Now dont get me wrong, I purchased Viacad 2d3d even knowing bugs where present but that was to show support and to give feedback/ bug reports to try to help improve the product, not to make attacks/demands

You misinterpret.

That is only a visual problem, it just looks incorrect, the line is actually connecting correctly, so trimming/ extrusions etc can be done. It just looks bad, and can open up a need to start checking to see if it is a visual error or a construction error.

Just to add:-

If I zoom in to the area of question and then draw a line from the circle, you will see the "on" snap is not actually "on" the circle.

Fair enough. But I do know from experience that you can't always expect that 100%. Please don't take that the wrong way. I also do believe that the company CSI, have been struggling to cope over the past few years especially from competition such as Solidworks (who are an enormous company, with thousands of employees worldwide), UGS (equally huge), Autodesk (needs no explanation), even Ashlar and TurboCAD. So as a developer like Tim who has quietly kept his little operation just above water- well I think he deserves a medal- because as I said, there is nothing on Macintosh and OS X to touch this software, and now that a few more people are trading in their PC's for Mac's, we are seeing more demand for VC/S, and that's a great thing. Also what is important, is that Punch have now invested in Tim's project, and this is very good, because finally all those who are loyal owners of the software, are finally getting what they initially invested in.

I don't think a lot of you PC-based folks really realise how lucky you've got it, when it comes to CAD choice. It used to be very much the other way round, but sadly not any more. I refuse to go to Windows. Crazy as it may seem, but I'd rather sacrifice work, as I see it very much like cutting off my arms just to achieve simple operations!!

I'm curious to know what kind of work you do Steve? I've just graduated (at 41 years!), but I've just got a new job, where some CAD will be needed. Most of it though will involve writing technical reports!

How do you change the "even distribution" of a circle before drawing it? What is the diameter of the circles? I was looking at a diameter of 250 or over (as mentioned by paul in his example on first post)

My current setting are now by default:

Curves: superfine.
Resolution.ini: Superfine to 0.5

I will play more with the settings to look for improvement

Steve


With 250 diameter circles. I see what you mean that the line is not touching the circle. The gap at the furthest you can zoom in is about .00001"


Jason

I've got the folder, but can any one tell me where the resolution.ini file is...or am I missing something? :o

(on Mac that is!)

Thanks for all the feedback on visual resolution. Just to clarify, internally everything snaps to the actual geometry not the display geometry. But it frequently comes up so it would be great if we could come up with a solution.

Our display resolution is based on angular deviations. For a curve, its the angular deviation between connected vectors. For a surface it's the angular deviation of the surface normal to the facet normal. These angular values define the definitions for medium, very fine, super fine and are stored in the resolution.ini file.

The problem with just cranking it up is it directly impacts performance.

Ryan mentioned that AutoCAD solves the problem by having the user manually hit Regen as they zoom up and down.

Maybe we could use one of the background processors to automatically change on screen resolution based on zoom level?

Something else we've talked about is exposing a UI for the angular values associated with very fine, super fine etc.

Those of you using other packages and have some insight to how they may be solving this problem please jump in.

Thanks for all the feedback and appreciate any suggestions.

Tim

ie

turn 'even distribution' etc on temporarily

(or even by proximity whilst placing a new point ?)