0026958: Visualization - Extend Grid visualization to fill the whole view automatically

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(0048776) Vico Liang (developer) 2015-12-07 11:40	Dear kgv, Is it possible to extend grid to fill the whole view outside occt visualization framework? I have tried to set a very huge extent, but it suffers performance issue. Do you have any good idea to implement this feature with high performance?

(0048778) kgv (developer) 2015-12-07 11:56	Dear Vico, current implementation defines fixed presentation - object contains fixed number of lines, which means that all lines are resident in memory and should be computed at once. Making grid step too small in such a way would make its presentation extremely large and expensive. So instead, scalable grid presentation should rely on another mechanism - adaptive number of lines visible in viewer (depending on camera position) and adaptive step (e.g. to vary step depending on lines density).

(0048783) Vico Liang (developer) 2015-12-07 12:28	Dear kgv, Scalable grid presentation should be a nice feature. I see most of the applications have the grid with adaptive number of lines and adaptive step. When i try to use occt embeded grid, i find it's very hard to accomplish such feature. So i think OCCT should improve its internal GRID presentation.

(0048909) kgv (developer) 2015-12-09 14:53 edited on: 2015-12-09 14:53	> Scalable grid presentation should be a nice feature. I have to agree, however most OCCT-based applications I have seen do not use grid at all - this is why this functionality has not been evolved in OCCT for a long time. Some projects define own OCCT OpenGl_Element for 2D grid (in case of 2D view implementation is more or less straight-forward).

(0049069) Vico Liang (developer) 2015-12-12 13:48	Grid is essential in most CAD application. There will be more and more applications to adopt OCCT visualization package if these feature are avaiable and convinient to use.

(0060876) Vico Liang (developer) 2016-11-30 07:21	Dear kgv, Could you raise the priority of this issue about grid? Do you have solution about the implementation this feature? It must be a cool feature of OCCT visulization. I'm sure many applications need it. Or at least would you please give some thought about how to implement it base on OCCT visulization framework? Thanks

(0060893) Timo (developer) 2016-11-30 12:31 edited on: 2016-11-30 12:37	Interesting would maybe also be a chessboard grid design like in the 3D Builder app of Windows 10. See appended image. In any case it would be good that an adaptive grid changes its step when zooming e.g. in powers of 10, so that it can help to get an idea of the size of shapes.

(0062113) Vico Liang (developer) 2016-12-26 12:02	Is there any idea to implement an adaptive grid in OCCT visulization framework?

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2015-12-07 10:49	Vico Liang	New Issue
2015-12-07 10:49	Vico Liang	Assigned To	=> kgv
2015-12-07 11:40	Vico Liang	Note Added: 0048776
2015-12-07 11:45	Vico Liang	Summary	Extend Grid visualization to fill the whole view automalically => Extend Grid visualization to fill the whole view automatically
2015-12-07 11:56	kgv	Note Added: 0048778
2015-12-07 12:28	Vico Liang	Note Added: 0048783
2015-12-09 14:53	kgv	Note Added: 0048909
2015-12-09 14:53	kgv	Priority	normal => low
2015-12-09 14:53	kgv	Target Version	7.0.0 => 7.1.0
2015-12-09 14:53	kgv	Note Edited: 0048909	View Revisions
2015-12-09 14:53	kgv	Note Edited: 0048909	View Revisions
2015-12-12 13:48	Vico Liang	Note Added: 0049069
2016-06-16 21:58	kgv	Relationship added	related to 0026154
2016-10-25 09:36	kgv	Target Version	7.1.0 => 7.2.0
2016-11-30 07:21	Vico Liang	Note Added: 0060876
2016-11-30 12:31	Timo	Note Added: 0060893
2016-11-30 12:32	Timo	File Added: 3D Builder.png
2016-11-30 12:37	Timo	Note Edited: 0060893	View Revisions
2016-12-26 12:02	Vico Liang	Note Added: 0062113
2017-01-30 11:21	kgv	Relationship added	related to 0028405
2017-07-10 11:36	kgv	Summary	Extend Grid visualization to fill the whole view automatically => Visualization - Extend Grid visualization to fill the whole view automatically
2017-07-20 11:33	kgv	Target Version	7.2.0 => 7.4.0
2019-09-04 12:58	abv	Target Version	7.4.0 => 7.5.0
2019-09-18 14:39	kgv	Relationship added	related to 0030979
2020-08-28 14:30	kgv	Target Version	7.5.0 => 7.6.0*