I am trying to set up Curic Section with layout to produce section drawings that will be between 1/2" = 12" and 1"=12" scales and I’m experiencing issues with render quality.
I understand that I’m zooming pretty far in on this but is that really the best I can hope for in terms of a raster image render?
I’m happy to share the file but there are definitely not best modeling practices being followed in it. It’s a sandbox that I’m using to dial in curic section.
What are your export settings? Firstly LO previews at a lower quality so don’t worry too much what you see in the LO viewport/canvas. By default LO renders I think at medium image resolution. Might not be a drastic improvement but worth looking into.
The only way that I can think of to improve on this is to scale the layout paper space by 2x and export it at half scale. It just doesn’t want to render raster images at higher than like 50 DPI unless I’m missing something.
Hmmm…What’s the source and resolution of the original wood texture you’re using? Edit I see it’s happening to all of your textures. Can you share the full PDF export, not a screen shot?
I think LO is operating normally. It’s a very small detail you’re showing so it’s technically viewing fine when displayed at ‘actual size’. To see that pixelation, you need to zoom in 800% - which is unreasonable to expect a raster image to maintain its resolution at that level of zoom.
The “High” resolution export from LayOut is 300 DPI, so assuming your boards are about one inch thick, there is room for about 25 pixels at 1:12 scale. Printing to paper makes it even worse if you aren’t using dye-sublimation, as printers use dithering to create colours so the practical resolution is still more coarse.
