AC11 Little improvements......

[Anonymous]

Wanted to start a list of AC11 Little improvements......which are not announced:

First Selection outline now is shown in dots
Second Selection outline is shown in Dot Dash Dot

Nice, yet still short cut C for changing of the method is still not implemented, must be very hard to code it in!
Joseph

[Anonymous]

Thomas wrote:
I don't see why you Plot.

1st because it's many times faster.
2nd because thin lines are really thin
3th the entry drawing seems more accurate (I've only some problem with fills trasparency, for this in some case I use printing)

[Thomas Holm]

borgo1971 wrote:

Thomas wrote:
I don't see why you Plot.

1st because it's many times faster.
2nd because thin lines are really thin
3th the entry drawing seems more accurate (I've only some problem with fills trasparency, for this in some case I use printing)

1)The speed must depend on the printer and the interface - if it recognizes your plot output format and rasterizes it in hardware that could be fast.

2) If you don't get your printers max resolution when you print hairlines or pen width 0.00 then something is wrong with your setup. I find it almost hard to see our 1200dpi printer's hairlines!

3) I would guess you get issues as soon as you try to plot anything that contains bitmaps. A transparent or precentage fill might transform into a bitmap anywhere along the output path as soon as some node doesn't recoognize it.

[Anonymous]

Not quite an AC11 improvement but...

I have discovered that when you save an AC11 file which contains multi-story modules back to AC10 they retain their multi-story nature.

I'm not sure if this is actually helpful to anyone (unless you are using NavisWorks which does not (yet?) have AC11 translators) but it was certainly a pleasant surprise for me.

[Rick Thompson]

borgo1971 wrote:

Thomas wrote:
I don't see why you Plot.

1st because it's many times faster.
2nd because thin lines are really thin
3th the entry drawing seems more accurate (I've only some problem with fills trasparency, for this in some case I use printing)

And, some machines come without postscript hardware.. like my Oce 9300. The dealer ended up with a used one I could have gotten cheap, but after installing it and experimenting I went back to plotting. I do think it is quicker.