Hi Marc,

> If it was like your example of the yellow dotted lines inside the
> gray box it would be great! But if this would make the regular hidden
> lines like that, then I agree it's not good.

That's the tricky part - both these things go together as a package. There isn't any good way for me to distinguish "interior contained object hidden edges" versus "regular hidden edges" to treat them different from one another, at least not at the speed that would be required for display purposes.

I tried this same method on a more complex object and it really gets messy there:




> And also circles and round objects have no outline edges If I understand correctly.

Not around their silhouette, but they will contain at least one "seam" edge on it, like on a sphere there is one edge where the edges of the sphere's surface touch one another (kind of like a sheet of paper that has been rolled up).


> Maybe for solids it could be faces that shows in a faint tint, just enough to
> have an hint of the occluded set.

Yeah, this would be basically a kind of "transparent object" type display, where you could see surfaces through other surfaces. Right now there is a kind of transparent feel to the display, but it only involves the hidden edges being displayed, not surfaces.

I'd like to add this kind of different transparent display at some point in the future, but it will be a fair amount of work.

Either that or a wireframe mode will probably be the real solution to this problem.

- Michael