Detail center , offset from target

[freedman]

I don't think this needs a bunch of words. The target and the detail are not lined up. See attached. Is this a bug or a setting?

I made a random rough cylinder to test an idea. My compute times were kind of long so I made a simple object to fine tune all my settings, then I can bring in a more complicated model and set most of the values all at one time.

Thanks

[wandererfan]

I don't think this needs a bunch of words. The target and the detail are not lined up. See attached. Is this a bug or a setting?

Looks like a bug in Detail of a ProjectionGroupItem. Seems to work ok with regular views.

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[freedman]

Some of this might be my fault, I have some older and newer versions of TD, sorry. I will get up to date on both my systems (win7-64,win10-64). I just installed 0.18.158 and the detail anchor point symbol changed to a box, see pic, must be something to do with symbols. Not sure how it would print, can't right now.

The alignment looks good between anchor and detail.

[wandererfan]

Some of this might be my fault, I have some older and newer versions of TD, sorry. I will get up to date on both my systems (win7-64,win10-64). I just installed 0.18.158 and the detail anchor point symbol changed to a box, see pic, must be something to do with symbols. Not sure how it would print, can't right now.

Pretty sure there's a bug somewhere. ProjectionGroupItems use slightly different code to make sure they aren't upside down or mirrored on the page. Let me know if your updates change anything.

There's a preference on the second tab called "matting style" that governs box vs circle.

[freedman]

There's a preference on the second tab called "matting style" that governs box vs circle.

It seems like there should be one under "Decorations" but it's not there (see pic). I did find one in Tools-Edit parameters-bla-bla Techdraw-Decorations. Am I missing something?

If I wanted to erase some lines, what do you think is the best export.

This looks and works well. Thanks for your time and efforts.

[wandererfan]

...I did find one in Tools-Edit parameters-bla-bla Techdraw-Decorations. Am I missing something?

If I wanted to erase some lines, what do you think is the best export.

"Tools-Edit parameters-bla-bla Techdraw-Decorations" is the parameter I meant. You may need a recompute or 2 after changing the preference.

I'd go with Svg. I don't like any of the Dxf based apps and I wouldn't know where to start with Pdf. I find Inkscape pretty straight forward for this sort of thing.

[wandererfan]

The target and the detail are not lined up. See attached. Is this a bug or a setting?

git commit 77b22f4f3 should improve alignment of detail and source view for sources in a ProjectionGroup. Also introduces a Property to adjust the position of highlight circle/square on the source view: