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Originally Posted by mbauer
Whoops-reread posts. PDF is based on bitmap/pixels, not vector...
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Um... No. PDF was designed specifically to contain vectors. But it may also contain bitmaps. What Solidworks exports in PDF's is not bitmaps, it's vectors, but curves are made up of short (vector) line segments.
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Originally Posted by way_up_north
What I?m doing is using fusion360 for curved practice parts. The spline tool seems to work seemlesssly there...And staying with solidworks for parts with straight edges
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If you're designing parts for machining/forming/etc. later, and people will be making the parts from a Solidworks native tile, or a STEP or IGES output of that Solidworks file, there's no reason to use Fusion.
If you're planning on making a PDF and printing it out and having a shop make a part from that PDF, then you're already accepting a quality level that isn't going to be affected by having the curves show as short line segments...