Bullpen Font Poll Results
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Well our poll was favorably received with 42 people responding. Thanks to all who submitted info. Now we just need to work out what we'll do with it all. |
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| 1. Helvetica (18) 2. Palatino (8) 3. Tekton (7) 4. Arial (5) 5. Times (5) 6. Graphite (4) 7. Optima (4) 8. Technical (4) 9. Times new roman (4) |
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garde (2) bodoni (2) charcoal (2) comic sans MS (2) copperplate gothic (2) drawing board (2) futura (2) garamond (2) geneva (2) mr hand (2) new york (2) orator (2) adobe stone sans family augustea augustea inline bauer bodini bold bell mt bell mt bold bell mt italic bembo |
bembo
italic bernhard bodega serif capitals charette chicago clarendon comic book font copperplate 31ab courier eras eurostyle extended franklin gothic fusi basic futura book futurist garamond condensed gill sans gill sans condenced gill sans light |
graphite
light heavy hand helvetica bold helvetica compressed helvetica narrow helvetica neue london subway lucide grande modular stencil sabon stencil textile tiepolo univers univers bold univers regular univers thin vag rounded zapf dingbats zurich bt roman |
Translation Issues
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How important is ACAD translation to you?
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How often do you translate documents TO ACAD?
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How often do you translate documents FROM ACAD?
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| Gary Tilson I prefer Graphite and used it extensively w/PCadd 2000 and OS 9. Unfortunately, my font is a Multiple Master fontset which I will have to replace as it will not work properly with PCadd 6. |
| Edward Groh Is there a list of "Bad" fonts? My Technical font misbehaves in PC6, specifically, I notice it w/ the needle tool. |
| Rick Clanton re: fonts, I've found that using helvetica,8pt, all caps for basic text and a combination of palatino, 18pt or larger, in all caps and "title" with a varied spacing (right term?) for drawing titles and room names gives our drawings a "dignified" traditional look that is very readable in the field, while being simple enough to implement office-wide. |
| Peter Baco t CAD experience varies. Most important is a willingness to work out problems. Some few only want to do what they've learned and any glitch or new twist is of no interest to them. For example, most PC users could send plots to the printer if you provided them the plot file, but most do not know how and don't want to try. |
| Erik Mar Zurich is similar to many of the other modern sans serif designs, but it is a little more blocky, more heavily stroked, and kerned farther apart than Helvetica, which makes it more readable, especially in 50% sets. It also degrades less after multiple photocopies. |
| Phil Loheed We use many different fonts on a project-by-project basis. The above tend to be our standards. (Bauer Bodoni Bold is our logo and letterhead font.) |
| John Morse Bell MT is the font on our business cards. Our version is the one packaged with WorksWizard many moons ago. It seems to work fine. If it bombs, we'll switch to something similar like Goudy's or Cochin's romans. Geneva and New York are in all of our old ClarisCAD drawings and most of our PCadd5 drawings, but not in our current stationery. |
| Name=Optional Comments=The ability to select text and font should be faster. |
| Peter Carlsen After reading the forum, I'm reluctant to make the financial plunge of all new equipment and software to end up more or less where I am now...changing over to X or siX is not without it's share of troubles, amoung them, trying to explain to your wife why what used to work, no longer is possible. Is ten really worth the effort? |
| Robert Potter & Partners We are upgrading to OSX and Powercadd siX in the next two weeks so have yet to try the latest dwg translator. We have tended to use our sole copy of Archicad to translate any problem dwg files. Why is Autocad translation so difficult when the drawings are 1:1 scale? Or is that too simplistic? |
| Mushroe The text insertion point shift (amoung other things) when translating to/from ACAD with the Cussed DWG translator (which I PAID for) has been ticking me off for years. |
| J Richardson Urgently need a way to specify/choose destination font for PCADD>>ACAD translations, not just courier as now but also some others commonly used by ACAD offices. Ariel might be one of them, not sure. Maybe all this has been addressed in siX, I haven't learned. Other text options/specifications would be nice, like *convert all to such-and-such point size* and *convert all to upper case*. Translations into PCADD are less annoying since PCADD/WT makes it relatively easy to clean up wierd ACAD stuff. I say relatively... |
| Paul You folks are very responsive and have developed a terriffic program. Check out the SketchUp program. I know you folks are aware of them and they are also providing excellent service. The combination of PC and SketchUp is the best. |
| Nick Pellicoro I would really like to see Kerning in PowerCadd. I find the type tools really hold the program back. I also believe you are truly selling the program short as there is a much larger market out there besides Architects and Engineers who would love to use PowerCadd but the type handling is a deal breaker for them. Why have such an elegant presentation vehicle with inelegant type tools?? i know that I am not the only one that would not need inDesign or Quark if PowerCadd could do just this one more task! Expand your Market.....otherwise......... you are just wnking at beautiful girls in the dark!!! ;-) |
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John DeFazio AIA http://www.engsw.com/Drawings/DeFazio/tkts.html The text abilities in PowerCadd have been and remain spotty at best. With each upgrade I am all ways hoping for a the resolution to these problems. Graphite has been the worst ( but others have behaved similarly); after the text is written and placed, editing of it becomes frustrating as the text edit box seems at a different scale then the font text making it impossible to see what you are typing. Often I have to convent the entire text layer to Geneva or some other O.K. font to proof read and make corrections. Al this is precisely the opposite of the Apple WYSIWYG system that makes it so powerful. PowerCADD, WildTools should have native stable architectural and engineering fonts. |
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David Ross The proficiency of the "other side" ranges from folks who have the manuals memorized to people who still only know how to draw lines and arcs. "Limits, the drawing, what command it that?" |
| John Cruet PowerCadd would be the most wonderful program if it didn't crash so much! |
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Page updated: 4 September 2003 |
