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Iam trying to extrude a closed curve so that I can create a solid .stl. When I am extruding the curve it looks all jagged. When I open the .stl in Makerbot if is also jagged. ***This is not just a rendering issue for the mesh it actually exports jagged. Check out the attached screen shot. Notice the2nd from bottom left image with the red dot on it. You will see that around the edges there is a jagged shape escaping.

Hi Cameron - It looks like your objects are very far from the World origin (Coordinates shown in the bottom left of the screen grab) If possible, move everything closer in and it should look better. Use ClearAllMeshes to force remeshing after the move, if needed.

Try move, select all you geo, OSnap to some part of it (or a specific point you want at world 0), for the point to move to type in w0 (enter), then you can use ZEA (zoom extents all) to find everything again.

It has to do with floating point representation in a computer. Most of the geometry is represented by double precision floating point numbers, but meshes by single precision floating point numbers.

As numbers become larger and larger, the gaps between consecutive floating point numbers becomes larger too. If you are far from the origin, these gaps can become of the same magnitude as the size of your object. Then you start to see jagged edges.

This is my issue, creating new parts in Rhino6 I can immediately see that curved surfaces show up as jagged facets. When I try to adjust Render mesh quality, it either does not improve, it improves(but still not even close to aceptable) or in most cases gets worse when I try to adjust >Density: and >Detailed controls.

Yes, It did improve but still not perfect and not as good as what I would expect on my old computer with Rhino5. This was just a simple cylinder as a basic example, I will post an actual file which prompted me to seek help.

Now when I export either from animations or one at a time, the resulting jpg, or png file has jagged edges. Same result in various export settings, file type selection. I have tried the google results for this issue and have tried many settings in Nvidia Control Panel, but to no avail.

Quite right - inexperienced with Layout . Frustrated with it in the past, but trying again. I chose Vector in the Sketchup Model tab in Layout from a Sketchup file that has a single line drawn large wardrobe cabinet with no textures. Lines are improved but still not smooth like screen shot. Good enough for my use though.

However, I lost the text of my dimensions but not the slash marks when switching away from Raster. Do I need to make my workflow to include entering dimensions in Layout if I intend to render in Vector or Hybrid?

This should be simple but I need direction as to how. If you view the screenshot, is there an easier way to create a vector shape with a rough jagged edge without the time-consuming process of using the pen tool?

you can try to use some cloud, gear, star shape tool and adjust in the top toolbar settings the amount of spikes/corners to draw that one. Then convert the used shape to curves and alter some it's spikes nodes. - Alternative find some vector shape with rough jagged edges in the net and reuse that one, or in case of a bitmap drawing autotrace that to a vector object (SVG, PDF) for reuse in Affinity Designer.

Thank you v_kyr, I just tried the shape tool suggestion but that is also time-consuming. Searching for vectors with jagged edges and reusing them by moving the nodes around is what I'm currently doing, but again, it's tedious work. I watch videos how this software does some amazing things, there has to be a faster way.

The Roughen Curves tool is what I need but that's just a dream right now. @JimmyJack I have Photo and I'm not sure what you did but it might work. I used the Trapezoid shape and used the Displace Live Filter but it doesn't do what I see in your screenshot. It doesn't appear to have done anything. So I'm missing something.

Basically you have two options. You can load an image (what I did above) or use the imagery in lower layers in your working file.

I've attached a file using the second method. It's using a Perlin Noise pixel layer as the displacement.

I also included a vectorized object done in Inkscape..... A pretty easy roundtrip.

Thanks to everyone for providing input on this challenge of mine. Much appreciated. @JimmyJack thanks for the source file and now I understand. I will check out Inkscape @v_kyr for modifying shapes and @Lagarto as I will test out the Roughen filter since I have access to AI.

My shiny new iPhone 13 mini has apparent issues with jagged GPS tracks, consistently adding some 2-5% to the total route length. For an illustration, check out the two runs of mine: the first from August recorded with iPhone 8, and the second from October with 13 mini:

The two tracks are supposed to be identical, and the physical difference should not exceed 20 m. Yet, the first shows up as 5.10 km, and the second as 5.31 km (therefore, making me appear faster than I am ). If you zoom in, you can notice the recording **bleep**-zagging, while the track is of course perfectly smooth.

As a feature request idea, Strava could probably implement some route smoothing by default for estimating distances. At least for faster activities such as cycling and running, it should smooth out such pesky gremlins.

Hi Patrick, no its not fixed. For biking records look fine, but the forrest running records look still strange. I will try the reset GPS tomorrow, but i already think about to buy a Garmin watch as well

To troubleshoot this situation, please try turning your phone completely off and then on as well as turning your location services off and then on again. Location services are located in settings > privacy > location services (turn off/on).

1. Close all open apps on your phone.

2. Then go into settings and turn on airplane mode.

3. Next, go to settings > general > reset and choose reset network settings (you will need to re-enter your wifi passwords!)

4. Once your phone has reset, go to settings > location services. Turn this setting off and then on again.

5. Finally, go to settings > privacy > location services > system services and turn setting time zone OFF.

I upgraded my pc and now when I have models open on my new pc the lines look jagged and not smooth at all,is there a setting somewhere I have to change or any ideas from your side,the graphics card is a NVIDIA Quadro FX 580(latest driver is installed),monitor is a 26" lcd (resolution set to 1360x768)

You might try going into View/Display Settings/Model Display, then select the Edge/Line tab and set Edge Quality to High or Very High. If that works, you could create a mapkey to make it easier to get there.

This seems to be an old an ongoing issue. Text getting jagged when exported to PDF. I've had this problem since I can remember myself and each time it appears out of nowhere. I can have text sitting next to eachother, one chunk renders very jagged and full of artifacts and the other looks fine in the same export with the same typeface, weight and color etc. Even within the same textframe! There's no obvious reason, it just happens. I've tried everything. The text comes out terrible no matter what. Looks fine inside ID but terrible in the PDF. Tried all sorts of view settings in my reader, settings in ID, settings in the export, settings all over the place. Tried online readers, local readers, old reader versions, new ones, tried with and without text style applied, tried numerous typefaces, tried viewing on different machines with different OS, different monitors, tried uninstalling ID to see if the problem goes away again, tried reading millions of support threads etc. There's no answer to this for me. This typeface issue is a true monster. It happens suddenly after exporting the same file a hundred times, then all of a sudden it starts failing as described. Just out of the blue. Nothings changed in the file itself. Everything is the same except the export result. I bet this thing goes away in a couple of months, just like its done before. I'm starting to suspect theres a serious bug in InDesign that comes and goes with updates. What else can it be?! I'm on W10. ALL up to date.

Any final solution to this Adobe?! Any eureka moments over at Adobe HQ lately? From what I can read on numerous posts online there's seems to be a gazillion different cases of this tiring type export illness. Like a virus that mutates into different type of errors.

Maybe you could take a screen shot of a bit of type from InDesign, and one from a PDF that didn't work and post them to the forum, along with your ID version, OS version and what export settings you used. And if you can post a link to a Dropbox or Google Drive folder with the ID file and the PDF, someone can have a look.

I've been down that time consuming road many times before without getting any answers. That's why my post requested an answer from Adobe on this issue in general. As mentioned there's like a gazillion posts on this typeface issue and it seems to be a bug. No way it's totally random that people are getting terrible text export results in the numbers that we see. There's gotta be a central solution to this that Adobe should be adressing. Text looking terrible in the PDF must be the number one issue that people are facing when using ID export routines. I just wanna know if Adobe have reached some sort of conclution on this topic. Or is this something to be expected for all time?

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