Lines print too thick

[perry.gray]

I would like to be able to print thinner lines from IDW files and can't seem to find an easy way to override the ANSI line type. It was easy in Inventor 7 by going into standards. I am using Inventer 10/11 now. I am mainly wanting to change the line thickness of the actual part and not the annotations. I often print detailed parts 8.5x11 or 11x17. I don't have a 48" plotter so I don't want my parts looking like they were drawn with crayons. I need to see the details sometimes. I want my laser printer to be the limit on line thickness not Inventor.

Perry

[34mark713]

In the Application Options-Drawing tab-turn off "display line weigths"

[Anonymous]

Easiest thing to do is just modify the layers' lineweight for visible and
hidden edges.

Alternativel, you could just window select all the view edges, RMB and edit
the properties and modify the lineweights that way (this would be a an
override to the layer's lineweight setting.

Hope that helps,

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Andrew Faix
Product Designer
Autodesk Inventor


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I would like to be able to print thinner lines from IDW files and can't seem
to find an easy way to override the ANSI line type. It was easy in Inventor
7 by going into standards. I am using Inventer 10/11 now. I am mainly
wanting to change the line thickness of the actual part and not the
annotations. I often print detailed parts 8.5x11 or 11x17. I don't have a
48" plotter so I don't want my parts looking like they were drawn with
crayons. I need to see the details sometimes. I want my laser printer to be
the limit on line thickness not Inventor.

Perry

[perry.gray]

I did that but I mean the printed line weights. The displayed line weights are not related to the printed ones.

Perry

[Anonymous]

That setting only affects screen display and would not affect printing or
plotting.


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Andrew Faix
Product Designer
Autodesk Inventor


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In the Application Options-Drawing tab-turn off "display line weigths"

[34mark713]

Thanks...I misread the question....

[Anonymous]

You need to set up your styles library (if you're using one) or adjust the styles in your template. Check Object Defaults in the
styles editor to see what layer your visible lines are on and adjust the line weight of that layer. You'll probably need to set up
your own standards. We only use 17x11 & generally use 1/2 the size of ANSI line weights.

[Anonymous]

Change the lineweights in Format > Styles Editor > Layers, for the active
Style.


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Dennis Jeffrey, AICE, MICE
260-312-6188
Instructor/Author/Sr. App Engr.
Inventor 11 Professional SP2
HP Pavillion Zv5000 (Modified)
Geforce Go 440, Driver: .8185, 2GB RAM
XP Pro SP2, Windows Classic Theme
http://www.design-excellence.com
wrote in message news:5496358@discussion.autodesk.com...
I would like to be able to print thinner lines from IDW files and can't seem
to find an easy way to override the ANSI line type. It was easy in Inventor
7 by going into standards. I am using Inventer 10/11 now. I am mainly
wanting to change the line thickness of the actual part and not the
annotations. I often print detailed parts 8.5x11 or 11x17. I don't have a
48" plotter so I don't want my parts looking like they were drawn with
crayons. I need to see the details sometimes. I want my laser printer to be
the limit on line thickness not Inventor.

Perry

[perry.gray]

In Inventor 7 it had the default line thicknesses listed in standards. In 10/11 it must be buried under of ton of user interfaces because I can't find where to change it. I have gone into the styles editor and created a standard called “thin lines”. If you go to the general tab it has an option to create a new line weight. I created a .001 thick line by hitting new. I then deleted all the other lines thicknesses in hopes that it would make all lines .001 thick. This had no effect.

Ok I am in layers and there are about 1000 things to change. Just for the record guys this makes changing line thicknesses a very laborious thing. What layers are just the 2-D IDW drawing geometry? There are like 22 Layers and each layer has about 100 line thicknesses associated with it. Is there not some global control over all this? I think Inventor 7 had plenty of detail on this. What you have now is WAAAAY to much detail.

[Anonymous]

Works just like AutoCAD.... Only it's in Styles. Not that hard to change,
but do it in a template or save the new style to the Styles Library for
external use.

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Dennis Jeffrey, AICE, MICE
260-312-6188
Instructor/Author/Sr. App Engr.
Inventor 11 Professional SP2
HP Pavillion Zv5000 (Modified)
Geforce Go 440, Driver: .8185, 2GB RAM
XP Pro SP2, Windows Classic Theme
http://www.design-excellence.com
wrote in message news:5496644@discussion.autodesk.com...
In Inventor 7 it had the default line thicknesses listed in standards. In
10/11 it must be buried under of ton of user interfaces because I can't find
where to change it. I have gone into the styles editor and created a
standard called "thin lines". If you go to the general tab it has an option
to create a new line weight. I created a .001 thick line by hitting new. I
then deleted all the other lines thicknesses in hopes that it would make all
lines .001 thick. This had no effect.

Ok I am in layers and there are about 1000 things to change. Just for the
record guys this makes changing line thicknesses a very laborious thing.
What layers are just the 2-D IDW drawing geometry? There are like 22 Layers
and each layer has about 100 line thicknesses associated with it. Is there
not some global control over all this? I think Inventor 7 had plenty of
detail on this. What you have now is WAAAAY to much detail.

[Anonymous]

OBJECT DEFAULTS

[perry.gray]

Ok I finally got it. What was confusing was the same options came up no matter what item you clicked under layers. All it did was move the pointer to the corresponding line. For some reason I thought that each of the headings on the left hand tree had 22 different possible line types depending on context. I don't see a need for the tree just something like line styles or types would be sufficient. Then you click on that to get the different line types. If you are going to have a tree on the left then make only the line types corresponding to that layer show up in the right hand window not all of them at once.

[perry.gray]

Ok so how do I make these changes effective for all drawings new and old. When I opened another drawing the standard I setup was not there.

[Anonymous]

You need your styles pushed into a shared styles library. You need your ipj set to read-write the styles library. once your styles
are there you set your ipj to read-only the styles library. In an existing document you can then update the styles to your standard.

[doubledragondesign]

My printer has a box to tick remove object line weights.

Double Dragon Design