Version 4.15

[steamfreight]

Hi David, back to just right on colours and density, but ..

Without a design loaded I changed scale from 1:6 to 1:8, 1:10 ..  and further the grid snapping grid became out of alignment with with the work area grid.

However when I loaded my design all works well 

Anyway,  thanks I can carry on now, regards Jim 

[David]

Could you please send us the plan you're working on so we can see what's happening?

David.

[steamfreight]

Hi David, as I said the problem only occurred with no design loaded and I have just opened AnyRail from the desktop without selecting a design and the hiccup is repeatable, regards Jim

[David]

Could you please check both grid sizes in the 'Settings' tab and reset them explicitly?
Using fractional units, there might be a rounding error that does not show up as everything is represented at a resolution of at most 1/64.

David.

[steamfreight]

Just been out for a while.

The initial 'snap to grid' value showed 1.0 when I double-clicked on the AnyRail desktop icon to open a new design.

Editing that to 1.0 the trailing zero is no longer displayed and the 'snap to grid' now aligns correctly to the 'work area grid' which is set to 12 inches when changing viewing scale.

Changing the 'snap to' setting to 1.5 inches the 'snap to grid' still aligns correctly to the 'work area grid' of 12inches and the digits after the decimal point are displayed ok, it's just a solitary zero only after the decimal point that no longer displays.

Could it just be a minor conflict between designs of earlier version AnyRail related to the numeric data types?

Jim

[David]

All data is internally stored as a decimal number. So when using 'fractional inches', any value between 0.0078125 (1/128") and 0.0234375 (3/128") is displayed as 1/64. This might cause a 'mismatch' even if it seems OK. Resetting 1/64 to 1/64 in the Settings tab explicitly sets the value to exactly that (0.015625).

Also, the display grid and the 'snap to' grid don't need to line up. If you set the display grid to 4", and the 'snap to' grid to 4 1/64", they naturally don't.

Finally, AnyRail preserves any values you set if you start again with a clean canvas.

I hope this explains it a bit!

David.

[steamfreight]

Thanks David, regards Jim