On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 08:35:56PM +0000, Ted Gould wrote:
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 12:37 -0600, Aaron Spike wrote:
I do agree that this is overly limiting to knowledgeable users. Perhaps a preference could be burried deep inside some dialog where newbies would be unlikely to find it. As I said I've been fighting for this but I've been veto-ed at every juncture. Keep mentioning this issue and I'm sure someone will listen someday.
Perhaps a setting for how they get hidden? Right now it's a little bit arbitrary, but there's no reason more lines couldn't be put on screen if someone really wanted it.
I'm still for not snapping to something you can't see.
There are situations where I've found this would be useful. For instance, in doing room designs, I achieve scaling by setting the grid to one unit per inch. From a zoomed out view, it would be nice to be able to draw a 123 inch long wall, but because the grid point corresponding to "123" wouldn't be displayed, I find myself approximating, then zooming in a few levels and tweaking it to get it right. This isn't a huge deal - it only takes a moment to zoom in, fix the line, and go back, but it's definitely a case where snapping to a non-visible grid point would be useful. If I'm in a hurry I sometimes just use the arrow keys to nudge things closer to where I want.
However, I can also give a use case where not snapping is the preferred behavior. On more complex detail diagrams, may set the grid points to correspond to 1/8 inch, and set major grid lines every inch. Most dimensions are whole inches, but some (like board thicknesses) are fractional inches (e.g. 5/8"). So the workflow here of snapping to inches when zoomed out, and fractional inches when zoomed in, works well.
The latter use case is more important to me personally, so I like the current behavior. But I can totally understand that there are people who more often have something like the first use case, and I certainly wouldn't mind some configurable way to achieve it.
Bryce