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Issue with rectangle width

Kany777 — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 14:24:11 GMT

Hello,

Whenever I try to draw a rectangle, it forms a width of certain thickness. See attached drawing. This is in comparison with a line drawn which is of zero width.

Could you please help me with this issue?

Thanks

Re: Issue with rectangle width

dbroad — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 14:48:16 GMT

Lightweight polylines, which rectangles are instances of, have a global width property. You may set that to 0. Select the rectangle and in the properties palette find that property and set it to 0. If you want the rectangle command not to draw wide rectangles, then use the width option to set the global width to 0.

Re: Issue with rectangle width

Kent1Cooper — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 14:59:07 GMT

Another [perhaps less likely] possibility is that it has a lineweight assigned [not to be confused with Width as @dbroad described]. Select it with no command active, and look at its Properties:

If it has a non-zero lineweight [or if that says ByLayer and the Layer it's on has a non-zero lineweight], and there's some reason to want to keep it that way, such as for eventual printing purposes, you can still have it display without it. In the OPTIONS dialog box, User Preferences tab, you can turn off displaying lineweights:

Re: Issue with rectangle width

Kany777 — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 19:57:39 GMT

Thank you for your help. It worked out.

Re: Issue with rectangle width

Kany777 — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 19:58:08 GMT

Thank you Kent for your help.

I was able to do it.