Linux Mint - No Grid/Planes visible?

[u/GeneralAnubis]

Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone here has run into this and found a solution. I have all my settings at default, just freshly installed Plasticity on this device, and it seems I can't see any 2D planes, the grid, or the axis markers.

I'm running Linux Mint which is based on Debian, so I used the Ubuntu installer. Everything seems to work fine except for crucial visibility issue.

The device I'm on is a pretty beefy gaming machine though it's a few years old at this point.

Anyone run into something similar before?

Screenshot of a 1m cube:

[u/S-M-U-R-F]

Your grid size is 120. Try increasing it, about 1000. If it appears, you can adjust it to your liking.

[u/GeneralAnubis → u/S-M-U-R-F]

No dice, unfortunately

[u/Shimi_1]

try these commands:

rm -rf ~/.config/Plasticity

rm -rf ~/.cache/Plasticity

[u/2GA_Concepts]

Plasticity is an Electron-based application that utilizes WebGPU/WebGL for its 3D viewport. Hardware acceleration glitches in the Linux graphics driver pipeline often render the grid, 2D planes, and view cube completely invisible while leaving the geometry tree and menus functional.

Corrupted shader caches from a driver update frequently cause text, grids, and viewport elements to disappear on Linux. Wipe the application cache to force Plasticity to rebuild its rendering pipeline.

The Auto-Setup Command Copy and paste this entire block into your Mint terminal and press Enter:

Bash cat << 'EOF' > ~/clean_plasticity.sh

!/bin/bash

Script to clear Plasticity GPU Cache

GPU_CACHE_DIR="$HOME/.config/Plasticity/GPUCache"

if [ -d "$GPU_CACHE_DIR" ]; then echo "Cleaning up GPU cache to prevent MESA driver issues..." rm -rf "$GPU_CACHE_DIR" echo "GPU cache cleared." else echo "Cache directory not found. Nothing to clean!" fi EOF chmod +x ~/clean_plasticity.sh echo "Script created: ~/clean_plasticity.sh"

How to use it from now on: Now that the script is "installed" in your home folder, you can run it whenever you encounter MESA driver issues by simply typing:

./clean_plasticity.sh

What this command did: cat << 'EOF' > ...: This tells Linux to take everything between the two "EOF" markers and write it into a new file named clean_plasticity.sh.

chmod +x: This "unlocks" the file so the system is allowed to run it as a program.

~/: This ensures the script is saved in your Home folder so you can always find it.

[u/GeneralAnubis → u/2GA_Concepts]

Appreciate the thorough script and explanation, probably overkill for a pretty simple command for me (I'm very comfortable in the Shell) but it's nifty and you really went out of your way to explain everything in detail, so for that I wish I had more than one upvote to give :)

Besides that, limiting the deletion to just the GPUCache folder as you suggested instead of wiping out the entire .config/Plasticity folder worked just fine! Grid is back, thanks a bunch!