Dynamic Grid and my custom shpes

[Paul M]

I have some custom shapes that are not working well with the Dynamic Grid
feature. The shapes are rectangular, with a rectangular image on top. The
Dynamic Grid lines appear sporadically and not always in helpful ways. So, it
got me wondering, what cells in shapesheet might be influencing this? The
only one I can see that is related is DynamicsOff in the Page Layout section
of the Page, and that is False in my case.

 

[vojo]

Not an expert on this but had a remotely similar problem. Basically, I had a
group of shapes (maybe 10 or so shapes in the group). After doing all the
work, it turns out that when the shape is complex, visio stops showing some
of the dynamics.
Namely, I wanted to hook these groups up like legos with each other...but
the shapes where too complex to connect on their own (no red squares).

As a side bar....if you are trying to line up on a grid....the
setatrefexpr() fcn cited in developer help works pretty good. You loose
cursor movement but will line up on
the right points. I got around this by having an action that allows UI to
select free form (deltax, deltay = 0.0000001mm) or snap to (deltax, deltay =
1mm or so).