Visual styles

[Joe-Bouza]

Not so much related to the application, but I was asked to find a way to make drawings look sketched, so I tried playing with visual styles. Help suggest setting the overhang and jitter setting on to accomplish this but my drawings can't survive the process; they lock up and crash. Any experience out there as to the optimal settings?

[jmayo-EE]

If you upgraded to 2011 you have preset visual styles for this. If this is a plan view you can look at Impression.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?siteID=123112&id=9246650

(I think you can get this on the Subscription site if your a member.)

If your crashing did you try resetting hardware acceleration or toggleing it on or off? Is it too much data? Video drivers current? Too much data? Maybe smaller pieces will help.

[Joe-Bouza]

Thanks John, I had trial of impression and forgot our subscription pull.

[ahulbertFDC]

I was able to set up the visual style to give me a sketched look on all the lines however it doesn't seem to apply to the curves / arcs within the drawing. Is there a setting I am missing?

[AllenJessup]

I don't usually do any sketchy drawings. But you could try the NAPKIN command.

Allen

[ahulbertFDC]

I did try that and it worked OK. I didn't like that it added additional lines and nodes. I was hoping to have a style that could print as a sketch but would have intelligence that I could keep modifying without having to redraw.