Seeing subsurface/hidden lines

[Spectre5]

When working in CQ-editor, I find that that lines within some distance of the "surface" are shown on the screen. For example, take the box shell example:

result = cq.Workplane("front").box(2, 2, 2).shell(0.1)

and I get:

Even just a simple box shows the corners going into the box a small amount:

The amount of zooming in/out does not seem to affect this.

Is there a setting to control this behavior?

[abnormaltaro]

i am also experiencing the same issue with cq-editor. how do i hide these weird lines?

[jmwright]

It's a work-around and not a fix, but if you turn off the X, Y and Z helpers in the object tree, the artifacts should disappear.

[jmwright]

#582 is a rework aimed at fixing this issue.

[jmwright]

#582 has been merged and seems to fix this issue.

[lorenzncode]

Maybe I'm just used to the old helpers.

The new behavior does not seem to be as useful. For example:

from cadquery.func import *
res = extrude(face(circle(20)) - face(circle(15)), (0, 0, 5))  

It's difficult to judge the location in z from the helpers now in this view:

[jmwright]

@lorenzncode Have a look at #586

I kept the change that seems to have been the core fix, but let the axis helper lines be on the same z-layer again.

I would want verification that this does not reintroduce the edge bleed-through problem from this issue though.

[lorenzncode]

Visually, it looks good to me! I tried the original example from the issue with axis-helper-revert branch and it looks like this:

[jmwright]

#587 has been merged to revert the z-layer change to make the axis helpers look like they used to.