Curves too hard do differentiate from wires

I’m not sure when it happened, somewhere around v4.8 I think, but curves are now almost invisibly thin on a high res monitor. So if a curve is inside a mesh, you can’t see it. Is there a way I can formally request that of the Blender devs?

In Themes/3D Viewport, you can change the color of “Wire”, but that changes the color of meshes as well as curves. And I can’t see a way to adjust the line thickness of curves.

Any help would be very much appreciated!

There is. Right-Click Select is decicated for feature requests. However this is not likely going to be addressed by the developers in my opinion to be honest.

Could you describe your issue a bit better? Maybe post a screenshot of the problem? Maybe it’s possible to do something about his without the devs.

You could change the thickness in the user preferences if it’s difficult to see wires in wireframe mode in general:

It’s not really possible to adjust the color of curve objects separately in the themes though.

You could choose to display wireframe in object color:

That is defined in the object properties in the Properties editor:

If you wanted to quickly set the color for all objects in your file you could use Python. So for example you could set all curves to red and other objects to grey:

import bpy

for o in bpy.data.objects:
    if o.type == "CURVE":
        o.color = (1,0,0,1)
    else:
        o.color = (0.2, 0.2, 0.2, 1)

Thanks for the very detailed answer. Setting the Wireframe color to random is the best solution I’ve seen so far. Here are some screenshots. This is an object with a curve modifier and its curve, which is inside it. If I want to select the curve, it’s very difficult to see.





I noticed that lattices use a thicker line width, it seems odd that curves don’t. Again, they used to in a previous version.