How to get TechDraw vertices back - linewidth change made verticies invisible

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BDL42
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How to get TechDraw vertices back - linewidth change made verticies invisible

Post by BDL42 »

Trying to figure this out. Using

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What I did (or at least what I thought I did!) was to reduce the vertex sizes by using Preferences > TechDraw > Scale > Vertex Scale. This seemed to work.
The line size in the drawing seemed rather thick, so I reduced it. I did this on View > Data > Line Width. I think it was 0.25mm, I changed it to 0 somewhat accidentally. I saw my vertices disappear. I then changed the Line Width in that View to 0.18mm, but the vertices are still invisible. Even if the vertex size is set to 1mm, it is not visible in either view.

Guess, I messed it up. Have any ideas on how to get things back? I am surprised that local line width of a view affects global vertex size.
Enclosed is my file. Thanks for any and all help.
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0mer0
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Re: How to get TechDraw vertices back - linewidth change made verticies invisible

Post by 0mer0 »

The size of the vertex points is not represented in millimeters but is a multiplier factor of the line width. Even so, the value of 1 is very small for your drawing. It would be better to set it to 3.
Also remember to refresh the document (F5) and/or click on the redraw page icon
BDL42
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Re: How to get TechDraw vertices back - linewidth change made verticies invisible

Post by BDL42 »

Thank you very much!

It still is curious to me why updating the Vertex Scale and then updating the drawing only fixed the View, but didn't apply it to View1. But I changed the line width of View1 and the vertices became visible again. So my problem is fixed. Thanks again, appreciate it very much.
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