5 replies to this topic

[Yvon Gonthier]

Have you tried to put a light grey (or off white) background as it might not be as bright? Also, have you adjusted the brightness of your screen?

[Thomas Roman]

There are lots of studies on eye strain for typical office workers, where it's generally accepted that when viewing TEXT, our eyes prefer black text on white background... but haven't necessarily seen anything specific for CAD...

 

But everything I have read on the subject, seems to indicate to me that it's less about the "color" of the background, than it is about "matching the brightness" of the monitor with the brightness level of the room...

 

The 20-20-20 rule is the best advice, IMHO...

 

LINK to WIRED magazine article on eye strain using computer: http://www.wired.com...flux-eyestrain/

[AJ Spino]

I too use white on black to help with eye strain...also use a monitor with an anti-glare screen.  Is this what you're after (I haven't experienced issues with lines or texts disappearing) ?  In Layer Setup change the Fill Color to white and Uncheck Use Item(s) Color.  The only thing that won't change to white is the Custom Opening Text (no option to change that color according to SP support)  For Elevations, Cross Sections, etc. you have to Uncheck Fill Color for each element.

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[Keith Almond]

I think that Ray uses one of the windows HIGH CONTRAST colour schemes and it has a black background to EVERYTHING - DIALOGUE BOXES TOO. Softplan dialogue boxes are probably not designed to work with this colour scheme.