Persistent blue circles and dashed line - Autocad LT Mac

[Madhatttr]

Hello,

A small query here that no doubt has a simple answer.

My drawing seems to have developed blue circles along one particular spline. I don't know if something has become turned on by accident or what. But they seem to persist whatever i do. When Regenerating the drawing, they just change scale, and are there regardless of selection of the item.

If anyone could suggest how i could get rid if these i would appreciate it!

Thanks.

  

[maxim_k]

Hi @Madhatttr,

Does they appear when you select spline or you can see them all the time?
Looks like you are seeing spline control vertices.

[Madhatttr]

They appear all the time. They are in the same position as the vertices. But when selecting the spline they just change scale and carry on persisting.

[pendean]

Post your DWG file

[Madhatttr]

unfortunately, I won't be able to post the dwg due to the content. Screenshots of the particular spline are the best I can do. (sorry!)

Pasting into a new dwg doesn't seem to recreate the problem interestingly.

[maxim_k]

You can - create a copy of your drawing, erase / purge everything except splines and attach here.

[pendean]

>>....Pasting into a new dwg doesn't seem to recreate the problem interestingly....<<<
There you go, you found the fix: now run with it.

[Madhatttr]

well...I wouldn't consider it a fix (barely a workaround). Especially if would have to transfer an entire drawing to another file. Which would then lose all the groupings etc. 

I was hoping there would be a solution in case something similar happened again as it seems a bit of a bug. 

But thanks anyway.

[pendean]

Can't be a bug if we don't have your DWG file to see it for ourselves and all of us recreate it all the time, even in new drawings that we copy into: that's not how bug reporting works friend.

Share or work with what we have discovered here with you so far.

Good luck.

[Madhatttr]

Don't worry I understand that isn't how bug reporting works. (Hence why I said it 'seems' like a bit of a bug. ) Thanks for the helpful tip though. 

Hopefully I will be able to recreate it some time and we can figure out what is going wrong. 

Nothing much discovered either. I do understand how it is very difficult without the dwg. Worth a try though! Bit of a dead-end for us all at the moment.

You too! 🙃

[Madhatttr]

Hello again!

So autocad seems to have been quite laggy since the previous post. Even after re starts. Which seems like it could be connected. This is the case even with an empty file, so doesn't seem to be as a result of a heavy file. I think i will go for a re-install and see if that helps.

Anyway, I have attached a file with a spline that had the issue occurring to. I'm not sure if once re-opening the file it the circles come back. But there could be something there that an expert eye might notice.

Thanks.

[maxim_k · Accepted solution]

>>>>>So autocad seems to have been quite laggy since the previous post.
Try to clear all blocks from "Recent Blocks" tab of Blocks palette.

>>>>I have attached a file with a spline that had the issue occurring to
No issues on my side.

What AutoCAD version do you have? If it is 2021, then try to change Graphics Engine on General tab of AutoCAD Preferences from Metal to OpenGL Core Profile, then relaunch AutoCAD.

[Madhatttr]

Clearing the recent blocks seems to have been a big help. Interesting, thank you! Any idea of why that causes problems?

>>>>>>>>I have attached a file with a spline that had the issue occurring to
>>>>No issues on my side.

Strange. 

[maxim_k]

>>>> Any idea of why that causes problems?
No idea, but this bug has been present in AutoCAD for Mac since 2020 version, when new Blocks palette was introduced.

[Madhatttr]

Interesting. I'll be honest, it isn't a feature i have used at all. But will keep an eye on the issue in the future!! Perhaps the issue with the vertices persisting was connected in some way? Something to do with the lagging etc. 

Anyway, Thanks again.

[aeichnerMBLN5]

"...can't be a bug if we don't have your DWG file..." I think you just changed the definition of a bug.

"...that's not how bug reporting works..." He found a bug and reported it?!? The reporting of the bug worked just fine. It may not get fixed, but most of the most useful workarounds I find are from 10 year old threads regarding bugs that never got fixed, so that's not a big loss.

"...friend." That guy does not need enemies.

When I experienced this graphical glitch it resolved itself with a restart, so it was a different issue with similar symptoms.