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Re: Onshape Drawings announced today
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Re: Onshape Drawings announced today
Okay, you got me, Comic Sans is ugly. :D Arial is probably the best font that is most accessible that wasn't designed for engineering drawings. I'm fairly certain fixed width fonts are required by ANSI Y14.5 which is more important than form. Drawings are legal documents and must meet Y14.5 specifications (or ISO whatever,… -
Re: Onshape Drawings announced today
Constant width makes a lot of sense to me for width-constrained callouts, GD&T and the like. In other situations, it seems to me that consistent width (across platforms) is what matters. Kudos for being fair-minded, @Onshaper. As a reciprocal concession, there is the potential problem with ambiguity in many non technical… -
Re: Onshape Drawings announced today
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Re: Onshape Drawings announced today
Font style on drawings (a different topic from my last post, but running hot!): in visual terms I'd be perfectly happy with whatever is in use for this very forum. (Looks a bit like "Eurostyle"). The capitals (which on a drawing are all I care about) are every bit as good as Arial. There is however a serious set of… -
Re: Onshape Drawings announced today
By "single line fonts" usually what is meant is a collection of "open" strings of lines, arcs and splines (ie, not enclosing any area) such as a monumental mason would inscribe on a marble slab, in preparation for following those single lines with the tip of a V-chisel. These do not by themselves serve any purpose in a… -
Re: Onshape Drawings announced today
Wading into this discussion relating to Onshape's drawing capability and the fonts to be used on a drawing if I may. The first thing I would say is that if a person (student) of mine was to had in a drawing done in a 2D package or off the back of a 3d model (ie Solidworks/Inventor etc.) and the notations used Arial as a… -
Re: Onshape Drawings announced today
Interesting topic on fonts and one close to my heart. Fonts are something people get their knickers in a twist about, myself included. you have to look back into CAD history to see where and why many fonts originated. I started my career at 11 working in my Dad's architect office doing drawings, by hand on a drawing board.…
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