Image Quality Setting (Drawings)

The image quality setting in SolidWorks can be your friend or… your worst enemy:

With SolidWorks® drawings sometimes you can get issues like;

Edges on models show in some views but do not in other views
Dimensions not attaching to edges correctly
Incomplete printing
Parts missing
Incomplete section views
Export to DWG/DXF and PDF issues
File size issues
Zoom/pan performance
and many others…

The “Image Quality” setting in SolidWorks® found under Tools>Options>Document Properties>Image Quality

When the 2 image quality sliders are too low, you can have issues as mentioned above, also if the sliders are too high you can have issues with performance, as the file size will be much larger. If your drawing is a large drawing file moving these sliders down can help with performance. But when it comes time to print or export your drawing to a PDF say, jump in and move these sliders up to say %80. Going too high can lead to an unreasonable drawing file size.