Black or white?
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I'm currently teaching sketchup to some employees of an engineering studio: they don't like at all to draw on a white background; I had to make a template with the black background, like Autocad.
Do you find disturbing the white background?
I personally love the warm light yellow (moustard?) of the default style.And you?
/matteo
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@matteo said:
Do you find disturbing the white background?
Not at all. White or off-white rules.
Nice avatar!
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I have a grayish-green ground plane and blue sky as my default template for SU - don't have to worry about modeling a site for those quick models. They are probably just used to their cad program - I prefer black over white on my cad program, as it's not as bright and I can see the other colors better.
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Black has always been by CAD background choice but standard default SU is for me. It just feels right.
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One of the most appealing features of sketchup is its "skydome" and default ground plane at 0,0,0. These features seem to offer a comfort level as if being in a large empty field, ready to start building.
When drawing in Autocad, I use the black background only because the colors show better, and I mostly do 2d architectural drafting. The only other background color I found useful was a deep blue gray background, again to help with contrast and visibility.Do they pick up their scales and measure images on the screen?
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@mitcorb said:
Do they pick up their scales and measure images on the screen?
lol
I've used Archicad, and it's default background is white.
I suppose that this is just a question of comfort and habit: Photoshop interface is ugly, but it has become the standard.
What they say is that a black background is more relaxing and, after 8 hours spent facing a monitor, you won't have such an headache and sick eyes.
One good feature that I discovered is that, if you print what you have on your screen (with a black background style), you'll get a negative print: a white sheet with black lines. But if you do a rendering, it will be saved as you see it on your screen.
That's smart! Thanks again to the developers of SU.
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After changing over to Revit I cannot imaging drawing on a dark background again. Since you are not drawing with colors your image is very similar to what you are going to print. Similarly in SU I always start with a white background and no sky or ground turned on. And it does not seem to be more stressful on my eyes like some people say it is.
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I'm happy with the white background.
In Autocad I like to use a pale apricot background. I find it attractive and not so 'contrasty' but I sometimes revert to black when working off someone else's file. I know another guy who works in Acad on a pale green background because it is the same colour as the backing sheet on his drawing board.
Jeremy
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My Preference is pure white. For the same reason mentioned above I like to see on screen what will be printed out on "white" paper. If I had my druthers in AutoCAD there would only be black lines on a white background. Just for kicks I also set my plot styles to display when in paper space. Man this freaks out people that did not know that was possible. They think the compute is going all whonky....I had someone call me all irate that I made all the lines black and this was going to screw up their plots....hehe. "err did you switch to model space....Oh the colors are back how did you do that...I'm magic" There are two kinds of computer users:
A) the people that use 10 percent of a computer or applications capability and complain that the computer "can't" do XYZ
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B) the people who use 10 percent of a computer or applications capability and know that in order to use the other 90% they need to read the manual.OK I'll get off the soap box now.
Wait
CAD joke
I once had someone ask me how to divide a line into 5 equal segments. My response to that person was "well how would you do it manually" when the awkward silence had passed without an answer I knew life would be a lot easier if I just said type in "div" on the command line...but heck I still think a draftsperson should know how to divide a line in 5 equal parts using geometry. Ah the good old days of pin bar drafting and mylar and rapidiograph, and sepia although I don't miss the smell of sepia eradicator...I'm sure that stuff killed a few brain cells of mine. -
@unknownuser said:
Ah the good old days of pin bar drafting and mylar and rapidiograph, and sepia although I don't miss the smell of sepia eradicator...I'm sure that stuff killed a few brain cells of mine.
I found out that the active ingredient in the eradicator was acetone. We quit buying the expensive special purpose eradicator and went to the paint store for our mylar eraser. And, we opened windows. Otherwise, everyone used Exacto knives for small corrections.
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