ARTICLES ON LCD MONTIORS

does anyone know of articles on how to pick the best lcd monitors for
cad?
thanks

 

No, but I have a lot of experience myself with a variety of them.

"Normal" dot pitch of monitors is about .010" square + or - .001, and
most people find the stock Windows and Mac OS display dialogs and menus
acceptable at that resolution.

I found by experiment that my Dell laptop monitors with about 1920
pixels on a 15" screen & 0068" square pixels is quite small for most
people, but I have 20-20 with my glasses and find it just fine for
SolidWorks. It makes the images on screen look far less 'jaggy', and
gives me far more 'real estate' than if I ordered the lower resolution
available which is 1680 pixels = .0078 square pixels, though some like
that as icons and menu choices are more readable to them. With fewer
pixels on screen to render with the lower resolutions, there is
probably faster screen redraws in SolidWorks, though that is my
speculation.

Contrast & Brightness are important, though color fidelity is probably
not needed for CAD, unless you do photoshop artwork & web design.

Video cards will normally drive only a limited set of screen
resolutions and usually a set horizontal x vertical size ratio, so be
sure it is right.

My personal choice on screens has always been to get one with a damn
good warranty (& maybe extended warranty), as I don't like paying for
LCDs that flake out. That might hold even more true when the monitor
starts having USB, speakers, etc.

Bo

 

I am on my second 21" LCD. The first was a Viewsonic that still works quite
well and the newest is a Samsung SyncMaster 213T a year old now. I have
forgotten most of the technical yardsticks but remember that the two best
looking LCD's out a year ago were the Samsung SyncMasters and the wide
screen Apple ones with the glass bezels which are made for them by Samsung.
Perhaps another make has come to the front in the last year but be sure to
check out the Samsungs. You will never go back to a CRT.

Regards,

Dennis