Linetype Issues Summary

Rhino
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I was posting various issues in another post but I think that was distracting from bigger issues. So here’s a rundown of what I’ve found so far plus one new relatively big issue:

  • The various printing issues (look up my post history) mostly to do with linetype and line thicknesses scaling.
  • Dialog issues - They are relatively minor but a pain especially for people who haven’t figured them out. The dialog in the options menu won’t save some of the settings and reverts to previous settings when you click on another line definition. I think it does it with the thickness but can’t recall - worth testing every text entry. The dialog via the “_Linetypes” command is much better. The only issue I’ve found in that dialog is that when you duplicate a linetype the thickness goes to “pixels”. Easy to fix on our end maybe also on yours.

I think a big reason this got out of hand is because there are two dialogs. This also created some back and forth as the McNeel team didn’t originally believe me that the bug existed because they were using the other dialog. This might be something worth noting and avoiding in the future. Seems like a lot of extra work.

Edit: Can’t repeat the “new” issue so forget about it for now until I can repeat it.

A lot of the code is a mess. I do AutoLISP programming and DCL. I would actually be able to find and correct similar issues in my own code. I’m getting more and more into Python (and hopefully ETO as well). What I’m getting at is that there is no reason for a lot of these issues to persist - The printing and scaling issues look challenging and I’ll be grateful if/when those are corrected (they are KILLING me right now). These little dialog issues however… It doesn’t take a Linus Torvalds to sort some of these issues out. Maybe more like a coffee and possibly a bit of help with the testing/debugging.

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What does ‘bump’ the order mean? I’m not sure what in the user interface you are referring to.

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Something happened in one of my drawings where the line types got switched but I can’t repeat the issue in a simpler drawing. So either a) I’m wrong or b) there has to be a lot of layers and a lot of linetypes. I’ll keep my eye open for it but I would say just forget about that for now.

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Both of items in your first report should be fixed. They are in testing now.

If you have others that are repeatable feel free to send them in. It’s always most helpful for me personally if the report gives me the steps to repeat. This way it gets verified that its repeatable and scheduled up for a fix in a service release. If we can repeat, we can fix.

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I hear you!! Testing unlimited combinations is next impossible. What I’ll try to do is keep an organized log or something just not to start too many new posts.

Thanks so much for your help!!