topic Re: Guide Line disappears right after being placed in Modeling

Guide Line disappears right after being placed

alexliz — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 16:30:10 GMT

I've placed a horizontal Guide Line in a section. I need to place another one, just 12.8mm below the first. The moment I position it and click the mouse, it disappears. I can move the first one to where I want the second one to be; but then, when I go to add another one where the first one was, then that one disappears the moment I have fixed it by clicking the mouse. In the screenshot below, the thicker one is the one that disappeared the moment I let go of the mouse button, to nail it in place. It was meant to be 12.8mm below the other (faint) one.

Anyone noticed this behavior? I am on Hotfix 27.2.2 (build 5060) and have had a few issues in the last days.

Re: Guide Line disappears right after being placed

Barry Kelly — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 01:10:10 GMT

If you are moving the guide line with the orange handle then you must press CTRL or OPTION (Mac?) to move a copy.

Otherwise dragging a new guide line onto the screen should not delete others.

Barry.

Re: Guide Line disappears right after being placed

Lingwisyer — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 02:25:34 GMT

Pretty sure there is an invisible Minimum offset distance required for Guide Lines. Think I noticed it back in AC19, that if you move / copy a Guide Line within like 50mm of another, it just vanishes once you release. I have a layer called 2D Construction for this sort of thing.

Re: Guide Line disappears right after being placed

Barry Kelly — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 02:30:06 GMT

I just tried in 27 (build 5060) and I can drag copies less than 1mm apart.

Barry.

Re: Guide Line disappears right after being placed

Lingwisyer — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 03:38:09 GMT

Good to know that they have updated that. Wonder what is different for Alex then since he's using the same build...

Re: Guide Line disappears right after being placed

alexliz — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 07:52:04 GMT

Thanks, good to know I am not being silly.

Apart from that, I fail to comprehend the logic dictating the tool that is Guide Lines must be programmed with such a limitation.

Re: Guide Line disappears right after being placed

Barry Kelly — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 08:22:06 GMT

Actually you just need to press CTRL and not hold it.

It is the same as drag a copy.

Barry.

Re: Guide Line disappears right after being placed

alexliz — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:18:11 GMT

Hi both,

I tried again after Barry's screenshot above and still couldn't get them close together - I ended up moving the original instead of duplicating it. Then I rebooted my laptop and now I can place Guide Lines as close as 0.1mm (yes, mm) apart from each other.

Thanks again.