Quirky - that is what I am talking about

[Doug Park]

As far as I know there should be no difference in the sharpness of prints unless you have set up your printer badly. When I updated the printing I compared it to printouts from a lot of sources and ours looked as sharp as the sharpest out there. However, some print driver settings can negatively affect your perception.

Whether or not antialiasing is used by the printer driver can change your perception of crispness. Some find that using antialiasing makes things look sharper others find exactly the opposite. I can't explain why, but I've seen this occur.

Much of the time people print using a PDF printer driver. By default some of those drivers have very low print resolutions which would explain a print that is not sharp.

If we have an issue I would like to know what it is because the statements that Chief isn't printing sharp don't make any sense to me.

As far as line drawings go, lines are lines. But your configuration of the weights, styles, colors, choice of patterns, etc. can have a huge impact on the differences in perceived quality. Heavy lines don't look as crisp, for example.

Toolbars are an area of weakness in the program that we are working to correct.

Our user interface does need some functional and organizational improvement and we are working on that as well.

I'm curious about what areas that you find quirky. I could guess about what those are, but I would probably be wrong because one persons quirky is another persons preferred way of working.

As always specific observations are a lot more informative than generalizations.

In any case we are always looking for constructive input to improve our interface.

[dshall]

I think the biggest difference for me is whether it it is PLOTTED in house vs printed by print company. Either way, it had been printed to pdf995.

[sutcac]

For schematic and design development stuff, I prefer to go with the watercolor with line drawing feature anyway, which can be done entirely native to Chief.

[HumbleChief]

For schematic and design development stuff, I prefer to go with the watercolor with line drawing feature anyway, which can be done entirely native to Chief.

That's really sharp Bryce!

[sutcac]

Thanks, Larry. It's an old, unbuilt design, but thought it was good to illustrate this.

[dshall]

That's really sharp Bryce!

I totally agree, but if I had the choice of a straight on watercolor elevation or a 3D watercolor, I would choose the 3D every time. My point is, why would I ever use this straight on view when I have the option of some kind of 3D view? What am I missing?

[sutcac]

Thanks and I pretty much agree with you, but often ARC's ask specifically for elevations, and I just wanted to demonstrate that Chief can do this, since it seemed this is one of the things the OP was after.

[dshall]

Thanks and I pretty much agree with you, but often ARC's ask specifically for elevations, and I just wanted to demonstrate that Chief can do this, since it seemed this is one of the things the OP was after.

And I agree with you. I think it is a matter of educating ARC's on what we can now provide for them. I believe this is all relatively new stuff. People do not understand yet what we can do.

[yusuf]

For schematic and design development stuff, I prefer to go with the watercolor with line drawing feature anyway, which can be done entirely native to Chief.

here goes chief. excellent work.
ca can handle a lot and my friend's attitude towards ca is changing.
like it again, keep it up.