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Odd screen resolution / zoom effect in DS11.


In the past, my design technology file was configured such that line widths for things like standard text, line widths for resistor PCB symbol outlines etc were set to '5' (whatever that means).

Using DS11 I find that when zoomed to view the whole PCB at once, I end up with spidery thin lines and text that is hard to read.

If I change the line and text width in the technology file by just a small fraction (from '5' to '6'), then it makes a big difference to the line width as viewed on screen (the line width on screen appears wider by a factor of about 2). I assume there has been a change in the way the 'zoom resolution' is mapped onto the actual screen resolution. I don't remember this happending with earlier versions of DS.

The screen grabs below illustrate the point:-

Line width = '5'

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Line width = '6'

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