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Re: Patterns: Outline or no outline?
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Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:11:20 GMT
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Hello Lee,

Which way is right? Is there a best practice for this?
A tough question indeed. The recommended practice is to be faithful to the real
part, eg. if the areas with background color are not printed, then use main
color, otherwise use solid background color. Exception to this occur if pattern
would make sense on another background color if original background color was
hard-encoded. Imho on the two parts you intend to do there is no clear benefit
to this, and I'd use main color for black.

Philo



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  Re: Patterns: Outline or no outline?
 
(...) I second that. I do not think there is a strict rule to follow. It depends mostly if main color adds or takes away something to the pattern. Check out my 973pw5 and how I interpreted: (URL) (14 years ago, 14-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)

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  Patterns: Outline or no outline?
 
Since my last three patterned parts have gone over well I've been working on two more: (URL) running into a design problem with these parts that I haven't had with the others. As you see those two parts only come in black. What I wasn't sure about (...) (14 years ago, 14-Mar-11, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts)

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