Lines in floor plan views?

[Anonymous]

Is there any way to draw lines in (mechanical) floor plan views and have them show up dark? Whenever I draw a line or detail line, it shows up half-tone. I'm trying to draw arc lines to symbolize which thermostat is controlling which piece of equipment.

[Anonymous]

I have been trying to draw lines for match lines and I'm seeing the same
thing. I would like to find a solution also.

wrote in message news:5547484@discussion.autodesk.com...
Is there any way to draw lines in (mechanical) floor plan views and have
them show up dark? Whenever I draw a line or detail line, it shows up
half-tone. I'm trying to draw arc lines to symbolize which thermostat is
controlling which piece of equipment.

[Anonymous]

You can draw detail lines to accomplish this in Systems, but there are a few things you have to do first.

First, you need to make sure you have a darker line style created, this can be done in the Settings>Linestyles menu. You can create new or change existing linestyles to suite your needs.

Second, I had a problem with the Disciplines of the views. If the discipline was set to "Mechanical" I could not edit or print any of the detail lines I drew. I was able to work around this by setting the discipline to "Coordination". That allowed me to edit the lines and plot them as well.

Hope that helps some.

[Anonymous]

So it sounds like it's not possible to draw "dark" lines in floor plan views unless they are set to Architectural or Coordination.

Margaret,

I ended up drawing my match lines in the sheet views because the lines will show up dark there.

[Anonymous]

Jayspot,

Did you have the view set to "Mech"? When I draw them in the sheet view they
half-tone. (lines or detail lines) Any ideas?

wrote in message news:5548308@discussion.autodesk.com...
So it sounds like it's not possible to draw "dark" lines in floor plan views
unless they are set to Architectural or Coordination.

Margaret,

I ended up drawing my match lines in the sheet views because the lines will
show up dark there.

[Anonymous]

Margaret,

I just created a thick line style called "Matchline" and then drew a detail line in a sheet view. Sheet views don't have disciplines but my floor plans are set to Mechanical

[Anonymous]

Hey Jayspot,

Thank you for the info. I did place them in the sheets and they did appear
to be dark except when I printed they are grey. So is the sheet title. Any
ideas?

Margaret
wrote in message news:5548367@discussion.autodesk.com...
Margaret,

I just created a thick line style called "Matchline" and then drew a detail
line in a sheet view. Sheet views don't have disciplines but my floor plans
are set to Mechanical