Worksession - Curves almost invisible when zooming in

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Curves in a reference (inactive) file become almost invisible in a perspective viewport when I zoom in beyond a certain amount. It is repeatable. Images below show the viewport at two slightly different zoom amounts.

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Rhino 7 SR10 2021-8-19 (Rhino 7, 7.10.21231.05191, Git hash:master @ 108649faf534d985c11b4373839b82181b0f2b18)
License type: Commercial, build 2021-08-19
License details: Cloud Zoo

Windows 10.0.19043 SR0.0 or greater (Physical RAM: 64Gb)

Computer platform: DESKTOP

Standard graphics configuration.
Primary display and OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (NVidia) Memory: 11GB, Driver date: 5-6-2021 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 462.59
> Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display attached to adapter port #0

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: 5-6-2021
Driver Version: 27.21.14.6259
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 11 GB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Orca3D V2\Orca3D.rhp “Orca3D” 2.0.22.0

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 7.10.21231.5191
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RPC.rhp “RPC”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\AnimationTools.rhp “AnimationTools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 7.10.21231.5191
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoRender.rhp “Legacy Rhino Render”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 7.10.21231.5191
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\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 7.10.21231.5191
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 7.10.21231.5191
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”
C:\Users\dcock\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\7.0\PanelingTools\2021.3.2.446\PanelingTools.rhp “PanelingTools”
C:\Users\dcock\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\7.0\SectionTools\2021.4.21.831\SectionTools.rhp “SectionTools”

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Any ideas how to remedy this, or is it a bug?

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Hi David - I’ll see if I can reproduce this - you might, just as a test, disable Orca and close and restart Rhino to see if that has any effect - sometimes plug-ins can cause seemingly obscure and unrelated problems.
(not seeing it so far)
-Pascal

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Pascal, it may be due to the large number of items on the layer, and the very large number of items in the attached files. I

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@Pascal The problem appears to be related to number of objects and possibly layer structure. I can provide test files but they are too large to upload as attachments.

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Updated to the latest NVIDIA studio driver and the problem remains. With 64 GB of system memory and 11 GB of video memory it should not be a memory problem.

Rhino 7 SR10 2021-8-19 (Rhino 7, 7.10.21231.05191, Git hash:master @ 108649faf534d985c11b4373839b82181b0f2b18)
License type: Commercial, build 2021-08-19
License details: Cloud Zoo

Windows 10.0.19043 SR0.0 or greater (Physical RAM: 64Gb)

Computer platform: DESKTOP

Standard graphics configuration.
Primary display and OpenGL: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti (NVidia) Memory: 11GB, Driver date: 8-5-2021 (M-D-Y). OpenGL Ver: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 471.68
> Accelerated graphics device with 4 adapter port(s)
- Windows Main Display attached to adapter port #0

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: 8-5-2021
Driver Version: 30.0.14.7168
Maximum Texture size: 32768 x 32768
Z-Buffer depth: 24 bits
Maximum Viewport size: 32768 x 32768
Total Video Memory: 11 GB

Rhino plugins that do not ship with Rhino

Rhino plugins that ship with Rhino
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Commands.rhp “Commands” 7.10.21231.5191
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk.rhp “Renderer Development Kit”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RPC.rhp “RPC”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\AnimationTools.rhp “AnimationTools”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoRenderCycles.rhp “Rhino Render” 7.10.21231.5191
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\RhinoRender.rhp “Legacy Rhino Render”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\rdk_etoui.rhp “RDK_EtoUI” 7.10.21231.5191
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\RhinoCycles.rhp “RhinoCycles” 7.10.21231.5191
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Toolbars\Toolbars.rhp “Toolbars” 7.10.21231.5191
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\3dxrhino.rhp “3Dconnexion 3D Mouse”
C:\Program Files\Rhino 7\Plug-ins\Displacement.rhp “Displacement”
C:\Users\dcock\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\7.0\PanelingTools\2021.3.2.446\PanelingTools.rhp “PanelingTools”
C:\Users\dcock\AppData\Roaming\McNeel\Rhinoceros\packages\7.0\SectionTools\2021.4.21.831\SectionTools.rhp “SectionTools”

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OK - I tested with a few thousand curves - I’ll add some more - also, do you have multiple files attached?

-Pascal

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I have the problem with one active file and one reference file. The reference file has 123,418 curves on 18 layers and sub-layers.

Important discovery - the layers with curves have to locked for the problem with the curves becoming faint when zoomed in. Unlock the layers and the problem goes away.
???

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Yep. You got it. With locked layers I see the attached file display apparently overlaid with white at a certain zoom:

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It does depend, it seems on other objects being in the file - I do not know yet if that is due to numbers or scene depth but I suspect the latter. Yep, objects behind the camera trigger this.
I’ll get this on the pile, thanks.

RH-65400 Display - locked curves fade out in a worksession

-Pascal