snap to grid

i built a house using snap to grid & all the seems were flawless the house was put together perfectly. when i linked it all together & went to position the entire thing into place on the property everything sort of shifted slightly. floor heights were off etc. so i blew it all apart & repositioned it piece by piece. now the snap to grid doesn't really seem to be working the way it did when i first built the house......i have little tiny rezz lines all over the place (it's an anal retentive nightmare *LOL). i have been forced to return to fiddling with 10ths & 100ths to position things when i thought snap to grid was supposed to essentially eliminate that. what the hell am i doing wrong?????

Odd. I've not seen that.

Are you using weird dimensions for pieces? IE 4.503x, 3.4302y, 1.203z? Or are you building by the numbers too?

LF

mostly 10 x 10's nothing weird......guess i'll chalk it up to sl bugginess

try relogging firts before linking, after you spent hours on it

sometimes the buildings even go off-the-grid by 2 meters or so..
relogging fixes it all

if you make a 0.4m board next to a 0.41 meter board and snap them to grid you wont get it right anyway .. but mostly youll see it only when linking.. bug!!!

If I set my snap-to-grid value to 0.010, SL completely ignores snap-to-grid.

Check "local axis". I've found that sometimes that can bork snap-to-grid.

I frown because it does this.

I sure would like to see any and all possible grid values implemented correctly -- otherwise, what's the point of showing "0.010" if ya can't really use it?

I've noticed an issue like this with a fairly large build. My grid is at 0.125. The problem occurs when I try to select prims one-by-one with shift-click to form a group. If my camera is fairly wide, the mouse-click seems to cause the prims to shift by one grid-place. It's pretty annoying and something I constantly check. I've worked around it by linking smaller groupings, checking, then linking into larger groups.

ok how is it possible that if i am trying to line up 2 10x10 pieces that are numerically positioned correctly that they still don't line up? let's say i have 2 pieces that are postioned at a height of 20.5 & are lined up at 114.5 all along the edge & then the first piece is set at 214 & the next at 224...........all the numbers are mathematically precise.....right? yet all edges are not lined up correctly?? it is driving me insane & making me not want to build anymore.

to make it even worse, if i try to adjust my numbers by the 1 or 2 degrees of a 100th that the pieces are off i end up off the other way!!!!!!! aaaaaaaggggggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

btw, this has only been happening since the last upgrade.......

check to see that the matching edges of your prims have the same scale values. Also make sure the X/Y Top settings match (at 1 for regular boxes), and that the skews are set to 0. Last, check the rotation.

If all that fails, maybe it's a texture issue? I've found that I can put identical black boxes side-by-side, but if the connecting prim faces are white, I may still get a jaggy seam between the prims. I usually set these faces that shouldn't be rendered to totallyclear.

They may also have a small rotation, my advice id delete them and remake them.. Also.. I assume they are aligned to the world? (all rotations a multiple of 90.. 0, 90, 180, ect).

I stopped using snap-to-grid months ago. it can work, but you need to set grid size to prim size or else, it screws up... I prefer to measure and calculate offset... then just type in position coords.