It drives me crazy when I have to get closer to the edited object.
Lowering clipping helps but then Knife tool does not work at all.
Generally Knife tool makes tricks often like snapping away from the point of editing and when the snap option is turned off.
If you have trouble getting in close you can
Press Del on the numpad to zoom to selected,
or press 5 on the numpad to go into Orthographic mode (you do not get stuck in Orthographic),
or Shift-B to draw a box and zoom in to the size of the box.
Which snap option is turned off? The one built into the knife tool, or the one at the top middle of the 3d window? Do you need to turn off the X-Ray option in the Knife settings?
Is changing the clipping value back to default fixing the jumping?
it is not about focusing on the selection.
it is about the clipping range. can you see the darker polygons? they appear if the clipping is set very low like 0,001.
also when the clipping is so low the knife tool snaps in uncontrolled way like it cannot detect actual geometry. increasing clipping does not let me get closer to the edited area, polygons get transparent.
it happened in 3.41 and 3.5 continues.
It happened in Layout only as shadows were activated. Backface culling was on as I got closer to the object even not activated.
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