Gradient background not visible in detail viewport

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hello,

anyone else having issues with a gradient background not showing up in a detail viewport? the display mode i’m using within the viewport is set to have a gradient background, which shows up correctly in model space but disappears and turns to white in the detail viewport. interestingly, when i double click in the detail viewport, the gradient background appears, but when i exit the viewport it disappears again. display mode .ini attached.

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Rendered_Outline.ini (12.1 KB)

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Duplicated in V6:
https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-49234

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Hello - I see this here as well. I’ll add it to the pile, thanks.

https://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-49235

-Pascal

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@sef.nola

I’m wrong.
The background color works for printing, but you have to turn it on.
It’s in the Print control under Visibility:
image

The background goes away by design to indicate the Detail is inactive.
All viewports on the Model side are always active.

Artistic, Pen etc. all act the same way.

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wow, thanks!

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@pascal @stevebaer
If a layout view, with PrintDisplay on, is intended as a preview of the printed condition then I would make the argument that this is not a ‘feature.’

You have multiple clues as to what the ‘active’ detail is without having to misrepresent it in the Layout.

Clue #1: Increased thickness of detail window outline.
Clue #2: If detail has a name, the upper left of the viewport is changed to reflect the currently active one.

from Rhino 7 help:
‘A layout viewport represents the sheet of paper that will be sent to a printer or a file such as PDF. Layouts can include various views of the model and annotations like title blocks and notes.’

Anecdotal evidence:
I have had multiple users (myself included!) struggle with why the gradient was not visible. So if this is a feature, there are some UI/UX problems embedded in it.

Why am I posting?

  1. Accurate approximation of printed result without jumping back and forth between print preview.
  2. Wasted user time troubleshooting a ‘feature’.
  3. We often like using rhino models live during internal design reviews. This means zooming between saved model views, but sometimes it is nice to jump to a layout to ground a conversation with multiple related (and curated) views without switching to the generated image/pdf. Keeps a good flow.
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