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Plotting - Scale Lineweights Down Per Viewport

GTVic — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 22:29:28 GMT

Background, we use STB files and ByLayer plot styles exclusively. If we have a layout with multiple viewports displaying parts of the model at different scales (e.g. 1:500, 1:1000 and 1:2000), by default all lineweights will be identical in each viewport.

However, in the 1:2000 case the level of detail is so high that the lineweight thickness is too much and items overlap each other.

I believe the only solution is to set a VP Plot Style for all layers in the 1:2000 viewport. So for example for a layer assigned plot style = Black 35, which means plot that layer in black ink 0.35mm width, I would have to set that layer to plot style = Black 18 in the VP Plot Style column.

Am I overlooking any other solution? Thanks

Re: Plotting - Scale Lineweights Down Per Viewport

pendean — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 12:30:51 GMT

We have multiple plot style tables to address such issues with plotting: AFAIK there is no one single plot style table that does it all for all plot scales.

Re: Plotting - Scale Lineweights Down Per Viewport

GTVic — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 23:32:53 GMT

I should clarify my post to read: "the same lines in multiple viewports of different scales will have identical weights when plotted."

Yes, we also have multiple STBs, in particular a "half-size" STB where all the lineweights are cut in half for plots to 11x17 paper, and also STBs for color plots and black/grey plots.

So in the case of a solitary 1:2000 viewport we can switch to the half-size STB to reduce the line thicknesses. But in the case where a layout has viewports of widely varying scale, only one STB applies to all. So in that case my proposed solution appears to be the only answer.

Possible future answers:

Override STB for particular viewport
Line weight scaling takes viewport annotation scale into account instead of plot scale