What background do you use in model space?

[Steve Johnson]

Just curious.

[ccowgill]

black with cyan cross hairs

[jaberwok]

If it ain't black, it ain't modelspace.

[Richard.Kent]

MS - Black background with magenta crosshairs
PS - Black background with yellow crosshairs

My eyes don't work well with a lighter background and if it is close to white then after about 10 minutes I can't see anything on screen but white.

[mikepartenheimer]

12 hr work days are not uncommon. Black is easiest on the eyes. And at my age...I need easy.

[michael.12445]

Black, just because it's what I'm used to. Also, I have the crosshairs extending to the edges of the screen, old style.

Michael Evans
Togawa Smith Martin Residential, Inc.

[jpaulsen]

Black with white crosshairs at 5%.

[jaberwok]

Black, just because it's what I'm used to. Also, I have the crosshairs extending to the edges of the screen, old style.

Michael Evans
Togawa Smith Martin Residential, Inc.

100% rules!
Maybe to make quick visual alignment easier; more likely because that's the way it's always been.

[mom of 3]

MS is black............I can't see on the lighter colors.........
(I sound like a broken record, huh?)

[StephenJ]

In MS: Black w/ med blue crosshairs. I have a lisp to switch between 5% and 100%. I've been using Black since R9. I think with R12 Windows they defaulted it to white. That was the first thing changed after install.

In PS: Dark Gray (251), It makes the brighter colors visible which cant really be seen with the white background.

[cdatechguy]

MS is black............I can't see on the lighter colors.........
(I sound like a broken record, huh?)

This is why I use black background in Revit as well......but they fixed that here.....colors have been nixed all together.

[tedg]

Just curious.
You must be bored.
Wasn't there a similar thread like this started the other day....?
:p

[black background, white crosshairs at 100%, ucsicon ON always!]

:beer:

[CADiva]

I once read that using gray as a color background for a wall could reduce the residual image you see when you look away from a contrasting object. I tried drawing with a gray background but often found it difficult to see line work on company standards (and the guy setting these up has poor taste in colors... very blahh). I use black at work and the gray at home. :)

[shinji130]

Black because it's easier on the eyes.

[jacep]

I like color 149. It is still dark enough and I think it is easier on the eyes than black.

[margaretl]

Black. Drawings from old releases are used frequently. Also, drawings come in from several outside sources. Time is money, why change?

I have looked at drawings we have gotten inhouse that require the white background and I have to agree, Black is easier on the eyes.

[mmccarter]

Black..
100% crosshairs. I do not understand how anyone can use 5%. Hovering my crosshairs over an area to check alignment saves time from drawing a construction line.

Plus I'm just lazy!

[Greywethr]

I used to change EVERY SINGLE COLOR that could be changed, just because an anal retentive engineer was harassing a fellow designer about something he changed. Yes, it was spiteful & childish, but he stopped bullying the other guy. I sometimes like the old blueprint look; takes me back to my very beginnings before I knew anything about anything.

[archie.manza]

Most of the time Black and sometimes White - Plotstyles ON - Lineweight ON to look like WYSIWYG.

[simons_d]

I use black for model space. I use white for paper space.
Two reasons.
I know which space I am in all the time.
And, in paper space, which is where I plot from most often,
I can see any line of any color, on screen or on paper after plotting.
The only difficult color on a white background is yellow or 50.
Many dark colors are difficult or impossible to see on a dark background.

[Filipe Francisco]

Black,

in MS and PS


cheers :beer:

[JASONM30395]

252 100% cross hairs colour 180 ( and no I did not just mis-spell let's start this arguement again colour)

[dzatto]

252 100% cross hairs colour 180 ( and no I did not just mis-spell let's start this arguement again colour)
Sure you did, on this side of the border! :mrgreen:

Once you go black..................:lol:

MS is black with 7% crosshairs in yellow.
PS is black with 7% crosshairs in white. Used to be green, but it's hard to see on the gray areas in 2009. Didn't have that problem in earlier releases. ~shrug~

[sandeep_koodal]

Using Black in both tabs

[scott.wilcox]

MS: Black with white crosshairs at 50%
PS: White with black crosshairs, plot styles on, lineweight on.
It's basically a dynamic plot preview.

[icbinr]

Learned AutoCAD on an 8086 with a green monochrome monitor.... To this day I still use green text on black background for everything.

Some things just never need to be changed. =+)

[RobertB]

I'm using the 2009 OOTB color (254,252,240) most often these days.

[CADNate]

MS black with white cross hairs set to 3.
I can't make up my mind up about PS sometimes I have it set to black and sometimes I have
set to white.:?:

I change the commandline color depending on which workspace and profile that I am using.