Paul, isn't what you are looking for in the display preferences?

I know that if you export drawings and then open them up in Illustrator, you can produce a far higher standard of line.

Paul, the effect is the same on any circle/ arc tool. I don't think there is anything wrong here, it is just the way that the software displays- in order to make display feedback faster. FWIW, AutoCAD does exactly the same.

Paul, I think this is a throwback to the days when a 486DX based PC or a 8mHz 68000 Motorola-based Macintosh cost a couple of grand or so, and as you rightly point out, times have indeed moved on.

However if a drawing is dimensioned properly, then there is no need for this accuracy in curvature because you know it's a circle- because it says (Circle) R=xx.x on the drawing (that is of course if the drawing is drawn to ISO BS:8888 standard!), center being xx.x away from vertex x and y etc.

When knocking up sketches drawn at 1:1 and not to scale, it doesn't matter at all how long the piece of string is, just as long as the dimensioning is correct. :)

"My friend"? :eek: That sounds ominous!! :eek: LOL! :D

Okay- whatever......

Actually I think 'super fine' is for solids only. I know that you can change this sketch resolution in ACAD, but I think it is there in VC so that the software can cater for those who don't have NVidia Quattro cards in there computers.

I gotta get myself Shark as I'm badly missing the parametric dimensioning tools of VC :(

A new job starts next week, so hopefully........

Super !! that's what im looking for :p

No, I haven't tried any customizing yet, I am still checking the software out and nowhere near as experinced as you guys....yet ;)

BIG thanks Jason

Hmm- and found a bug...

1. draw a circle,

2. update to 'super fine'.

3. draw line from left circle quadrant to right vertex.

4. Superfine stops being 'superfine', despite still being indicated that it is.

5. uncheck superfine to medium, press okay.

6. recheck superfine, then it stays superfine.

Why didn't it just stay 'superfine' the first time round?

I have seen that option, but cannot find a way to make it default for all objects drawn, so then find a need to go to "edit~ change resolution" for each object.

An option I was unaware of, certainly works better (for a circle to look circular), but it still gives inaccurate visuals.

I dont remember having similar problems with autocad as I see in viacad.

I started with autocad (version2 I think) on a 386sx with co-pro. I could change resolution within the program and that was that. The main problem was the fact I had to give autocad a scale between the xy for the screen resolution so that a circle would look like a circle and not like an oval.

I can understand that, and I know that display can be a large time consuming area to improve correctly, but it will need improving eventually.
I would and do prefer that getting rid of bugs is the main priority at this time.

I was looking at the option: "even distribution". I think such an option should be made via a global tick box regardless of the actual setting of fine / super fine etc.