Running Rhino 7 and ran into an issue where For all of my annotation styles, the tolerance style option is suddenly greyed out and disabled. I am assuming there is a very simple way to fix this, but I am at a loss. Any suggestions?
Hi Carl -
Could you post the output from the Rhino SystemInfo command and a simple 3dm file that shows this behavior?
-wim
Rhino 7 SR38 2024-12-3 (Rhino 7, 7.38.24338.17001, Git hash:master @ 97e36efa02d7f71638988290bb2d190fcf1b18c5)
License type: Commercial, build 2024-12-03
License details: Cloud Zoo
Windows 11 (10.0.26100 SR0.0) or greater (Physical RAM: 32Gb)
Computer platform: LAPTOP - Plugged in [80% battery remaining]
Hybrid graphics configuration.
Primary display: Intel(R) Iris(R) Xe Graphics (Intel) Memory: 2GB, Driver date: 10-18-2024 (M-D-Y).
> Integrated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Secondary monitor is laptop’s integrated screen or built-in port
- Secondary monitor attached to adapter port #1
- Windows Main Display attached to adapter port #2
Primary OpenGL: NVIDIA RTX A2000 Laptop GPU (NVidia) Memory: 4GB, Driver date: 8-31-2024 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 538.92
> Integrated accelerated graphics device (shares primary device ports)
- Video pass-through to primary display device
OpenGL Settings
Safe mode: Off
Use accelerated hardware modes: On
Redraw scene when viewports are exposed: On
Graphics level being used: OpenGL 4.6 (primary GPU’s maximum)
Anti-alias mode: 4x
Mip Map Filtering: Linear
Anisotropic Filtering Mode: High
Vendor Name: NVIDIA Corporation
Render version: 4.6
Shading Language: 4.60 NVIDIA
Driver Date: 8-31-2024
Driver Version: 31.0.15.3892
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 4 GB
Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\ProgramData\McNeel\Rhinoceros\7.0\Plug-ins\Datasmith Rhino Exporter (d1fdc795-b334-4933-b680-088119cdc6bb)\DatasmithRhino7.rhp “Datasmith Exporter” 5.4.3.0
Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 7.38.24338.17001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\WebBrowser.rhp “WebBrowser”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoScript.rhp “RhinoScript”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RPC.rhp “RPC”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoBonusTools.rhp “Rhino Bonus Tools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\IdleProcessor.rhp “IdleProcessor”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 7.38.24338.17001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoRender.rhp “Legacy Rhino Render”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 7.38.24338.17001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk_ui.rhp “Renderer Development Kit UI”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\NamedSnapshots.rhp “Snapshots”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\import_STEP.rhp “STEP Import”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Alerter.rhp “Alerter”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\IronPython\RhinoDLR_Python.rhp “IronPython” 7.38.24338.17001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 7.38.24338.17001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 7.38.24338.17001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\BlockEdit.rhp “BlockEdit” 7.38.24338.17001
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”
BlankDoc3dm.3dm (1012.0 KB)
Hi Carl -
Thanks.
Apparently, it’s by design that it’s not possible to set tolerances for any dimension that is in fractional units. The original developer of the feature in Rhino mentions that it doesn’t make sense to add tolerances to such dimensions. Is this something that you see used in the industry that you are in?
-wim
Typically no, but i needed to do it in a recent case because of the variability of a material we were getting in…I could see other software’s (solidworks, inventor) making that assumption, but I’m actually surprised rhino is making that call given how open ended and customizable rhino generally is.
Good to know. Thanks!
Hi Carl -
I can assure you that I’ll most likely will never use imperial units other than in a brief test of something in Rhino, so I’ll gladly admit to not knowing what I’m talking about… Intuitively, however, when you are using fractions, you are rounding, and setting a tolerance to a rounded value like that might not make sense. You can force it to accept tolerances by switching the style to decimal units, setting the tolerance, and then switching back to fractions. In a quick test here, however, that just results in the tolerances becoming zero…
Cheers,
-wim