it's a coloring/rendering software that works in conjunction with autocad. i recently started working for a office which insists in using it for 2d drawings (instead of exporting to photoshop/illustrator). have you ever heard of "m-color"?? Any thoughts??
that's what i thought...i had never heard of it, and didn't know anyone who ever used it...maybe the IT guy here is getting a cut from the software company.
I used it a few jobs ago. color selection is tricky and you need to draw everything as closed polygons... but it makes revisions simple when it comes to colored plans, elevations, and sections, since you don't need to manually redo everything in illustrator or photoshop... not very common and revit may make it obsolete.
Now that recent versions of AutoCAD include the ability to assign True Color and Pantone values, along with gradients, I think M-Color is pretty much obsolete. In our office, we don't even bother exporting 2D drawings to InDesign or Illustrator, as we can now create some very sharp drawings within AutoCAD itself. (And once we start using Autodesk Impression, our 2D drawings will look even better.)
LIG...for simple colored drawings, I am using plane autocad with true colors and gradients as i think it is just as efficient as m-color (which seems obsolete to me as well)...but the moment that drawings (site plan or elevation) needs to have a more finished rendered feel, i take'em to photoshop...
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it's a coloring/rendering software that works in conjunction with autocad. i recently started working for a office which insists in using it for 2d drawings (instead of exporting to photoshop/illustrator). have you ever heard of "m-color"?? Any thoughts??
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that's what i thought...i had never heard of it, and didn't know anyone who ever used it...maybe the IT guy here is getting a cut from the software company.
ahhhhhhhhhhhh.....
never mention that again.
I used it a few jobs ago. color selection is tricky and you need to draw everything as closed polygons... but it makes revisions simple when it comes to colored plans, elevations, and sections, since you don't need to manually redo everything in illustrator or photoshop... not very common and revit may make it obsolete.
i used it in my last office but not often. live trace in illustrator is easier and faster.
Now that recent versions of AutoCAD include the ability to assign True Color and Pantone values, along with gradients, I think M-Color is pretty much obsolete. In our office, we don't even bother exporting 2D drawings to InDesign or Illustrator, as we can now create some very sharp drawings within AutoCAD itself. (And once we start using Autodesk Impression, our 2D drawings will look even better.)
LIG...for simple colored drawings, I am using plane autocad with true colors and gradients as i think it is just as efficient as m-color (which seems obsolete to me as well)...but the moment that drawings (site plan or elevation) needs to have a more finished rendered feel, i take'em to photoshop...
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