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    • M Offline
      millerjx
      last edited by

      Trying to stack viewports in LO.

      Moving the crosshairs, it is hard to tell when the crosshairs are over a real point. The hand tool trying to place/ position the crosshair covers the crosshair, so I cannot see when it is over a real point.

      Is there a way to make the hand transparent so I can see when the crosshairs are aligned?

      Thank you in advance for the help

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      • Dave RD Offline
        Dave R
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        The cross hairs should end up between the thumb and finger of the hand. Sometimes you might need to give it a moment to render. Depends on your computer.

        Make sure you have Grid Snap turned off, too.

        Out of curiosity, why do you have to move the viewport to align it? When I stack viewports I use Copy and Paste. The new viewport ends up right on top of the previous one and perfectly aligned. I do use Paste to Current Layer so every viewport in the stack is on a different layer.

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        • M Offline
          millerjx
          last edited by

          Thanks, Dave. Your suggestion for copy/pasting on the new layer worked great.

          I still have the struggle when doing a precise move, the hand covers the crosshairs. I took pictures pre-grab, 2-trying to place with the hand covering the crosshairs, & 3-moving/ placing with the crosshairs visible.

          I must guess if it is going to jump to a real point or be off.

          Do you have any suggestions? Can the hand be made transparent?


          1 Grabbing the crosshairs from the center of the drawing.pdf


          2 Placing crosshairs prior to move, covered by opaque hand.pdf


          3 Moving the viewport, crosshairs visible.pdf

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          • Dave RD Offline
            Dave R
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            Do you have Object Snapping enabled? If you do, you shouldn't really even need to see the crosshairs unless maybe you have lots of points very close together and you're trying to pick one of them. In that case I would suggest zooming in a whole lot more or picking some other point.

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            • M Offline
              millerjx
              last edited by

              Yes, I do have object snapping on. Grid snapping off. Zooming in keeps the hand over the crosshairs, and I can't tell when it snaps on. I guess. Mostly not well.

              No transparent hand option?

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              • Dave RD Offline
                Dave R
                last edited by

                Did you see the private message I sent you?

                There's no setting to make the hand transparent.

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                  millerjx
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                  Thanks for the hand info.
                  No, I didn't get a PM.
                  I tried to reply to an old PM, and it was rejected at Sketchup; [SketchUp Forum] Email issue -- You are trying to reply to an old notification

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                  • Dave RD Offline
                    Dave R
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                    I sent a new PM earlier today. Go to the top of the forum page and look for Settings. To the left of it you should see something like "1 new message". Click on that.

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