Outside the Lines

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posted 01/30/07 by Todd Hunter Impression Understands You (Unlike Your Parents)

Trying to create presentation graphics inside of AutoCAD usually involved using hatches and gradients in your DWG to give it a stylistic look. Some people could get pretty nice results like this but there is a limit to how stylistic you can get using AutoCAD hatches and gradients.

Impression feels your pain and wants to help. Impression understands your hatches and knows what you are trying to do with them. When you open your DWG in Impression, the hatches within the DWG are tuned into Styles that can be edited and tweaked. It is a soothing feeling you get when you can adjust the media of the lines within your hatch, or at least it was for me the first time I tried it. You can even add elements to your hatch, like a filled background for example, allowing you to exploit your creative side and go way beyond what you thought a hatch could do for you. Impression is comforting like a close friend that understands your design intent and wants to nurture your ability to easily create beauty from blah CAD lines. Impression will always be there for you, only as far away as your mouse and your monitor.

Your parents, on the other hand, don't have a clue what a hatch is, or why you would need to make an ugly CAD file blossom into a captivating image that stirrs the imagination of people who view it. Oh sure, Mom will do your laundry if you bring it to her but only because it the only time she gets to see you. But does she inspire you like Impression? Does she understand your blocks and sheet size? Only if you separate it from the darks.....

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