topic Re: Lines visually do not align with radius (fillet or not) in AutoCAD for Mac Forum

Lines visually do not align with radius (fillet or not)

karolis88KTZ — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 14:20:35 GMT

Hello,

AutoCAD LT 2023 (MAC) on a MacBook Pro 2012.

Lines and radiuses do not align visually although they are "continuous". Radiuses seem to visually drop down by a pixel. Tried on two monitors with variable resolutions. Arc & circle smoothness value doesn't seem co have any effect either.

Thanks.

Lines visually do not align with radius (fillet or not).

karolis88KTZ — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 08:37:36 GMT

Hello,

AutoCAD LT 2023 (MAC) on a MacBook Pro 2012.

Thanks.

Re: Lines visually do not align with radius (fillet or not).

RobDraw — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 09:31:31 GMT

Are you telling us Windows users to stay away from Mac because of this?

Re: Lines visually do not align with radius (fillet or not).

karolis88KTZ — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 13:09:32 GMT

I am sorry, are you saying this is a MAC based issue? I didn't have this issue when working on an older version of AutoCAD on a different MAC computer.

Re: Lines visually do not align with radius (fillet or not).

RobDraw — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 14:00:03 GMT

I am saying that you are in the AutoCAD for Windows forum. There's a different one for Mac.

Re: Lines visually do not align with radius (fillet or not)

maxim_k — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 14:59:50 GMT

Hi @karolis88KTZ ,

Please specify the exact Mac model you are using and macOS installed on your Mac.
Do I understand correctly that you are using an external monitor?

Is it 4K?

Re: Lines visually do not align with radius (fillet or not)

wei503 — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 16:33:08 GMT

This is a known issue and we are working on fix.

Re: Lines visually do not align with radius (fillet or not)

juemin.yuan — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 06:32:03 GMT

Hi @karolis88KTZ,

I guess your graphic card is NV card. Please try to set the sysvar 2DRETAINMODE to off, it may resolve your problem.

Re: Lines visually do not align with radius (fillet or not)

maxim_k — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 11:30:50 GMT

Hi @karolis88KTZ ,

I tried to set 2DRETAINMODE=0 as suggested by @juemin.yuan on a MacBook Pro with Nvidia graphics card and that did the trick.

Re: Lines visually do not align with radius (fillet or not)

karolis88KTZ — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 11:35:27 GMT

So no solid solution so far?

I had a trials version and it has ended, so I don't know what to do as I wanted to subscribe.

It is really bugging, when you always see a fault in your drawing. So I do not want to invest if in it if there is no solution.

Re: Lines visually do not align with radius (fillet or not)

pendean — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 13:17:13 GMT

@karolis88KTZ That is exactly why fully functional trial versions exist: it appears you need to seek out a better solution that meets your exact needs elsewhere.

Here is a list of alternate CAD solutions to explore if you need it https://www.google.com/search?q=alternates+to+autocad+for+mac