It is not clear for what cases the minVol control is useful or necessary and for some cases it causes problems with snapping and layer addition if not set to a sufficiently small value.
Reference: Duisburg Test Case (DTC) el Moctar, O., Shigunov, V., Zorn, T., Duisburg Test Case: Post-Panamax Container Ship for Benchmarking, Journal of Ship Technology Research, Vol.59, No.3, pp. 50-65, 2012