topic Re: Super thickness to rectangle in AutoCAD Forum

Super thickness to rectangle

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 14:18:06 GMT

Hello I have my colleague she asks about an AutoCAD issue. The rectangle command have super thickness and I don't know what does that. I tried to add thickness on my station but the REC + T is simply ineffective and she don't seem to have the "t" option on her station. (Sorry I didn't memorize which version of CAD she has)

This is the result, the rectangle has some vertex inside we can move around.. do you know how we can draw a simple rectangle again?

This is the image, it's like a solid rectangle, filled with a hatche and vertex inside to move it around and produce plenty of ... shapes, it's very odd

Thanks

Re: Super thickness to rectangle

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 14:18:55 GMT

[img]https://i.imgur.com/0XT5409.png[/img]

Re: Super thickness to rectangle

pendean — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 14:33:56 GMT

PLINEWID variable, look up usage in HELP.

Or do they just need to turn off LWDISPLAY variable?

Re: Super thickness to rectangle

rkmcswain — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 14:35:03 GMT

That looks like a polyline with a width applied, either constant or varying. Select this object and look at properties. Change the "Global Width" to 0.0 and see what happens.

Re: Super thickness to rectangle

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:08:10 GMT

ok thanks it was PLINEWID, I did not know that command, It was giving the thickness to the rectangle..

Thanks for your time.

Re: Super thickness to rectangle

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:15:10 GMT

In AutoCAD, "Thickness" is the 3d height of a 2d object like a polyline (the polyline remains at elevation 0 but if you flip the view to Front, you will see it extending upwards).

"Width" is how wide the polyline appears on the top-down view.

Re: Super thickness to rectangle

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:21:53 GMT

Ok thank you Marianne, I'll remember that, thickness is like extrude of a rectangle, width is width of a PL.

Re: Super thickness to rectangle

rkmcswain — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:50:21 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

ok thanks it was PLINEWID

As you probably saw, PLINEWID did not have an effect on your existing polylines. That is simply the default width for new polylines. As stated earlier, you can change the width of existing polylines in PROPERTIES.

Re: Super thickness to rectangle

Kent1Cooper — Tue, 22 Jan 2019 18:43:29 GMT

@pendean wrote:
PLINEWID variable....

I would just point out that if a Polyline was originally made using the RECTANG command, the width must have been either: called for using the Width option inside RECTANG [inadvertently, perhaps, if they didn't know what caused it -- maybe someone typed a W thinking they would be giving the width of the rectangle's size, but that should be via the Dimensions option that comes later]; or applied to the Polyline after the fact. It's not just the result of a non-zero PLINEWID setting. Whatever PLINEWID is set to, RECTANG makes them using its own independent Width setting, which is zero by default until it gets changed. Changing PLINEWID does not affect RECTANG's Width setting, nor vice versa. I haven't found a System Variable that controls that option within RECTANG -- I assume it's stored in some other way.

Re: Super thickness to rectangle

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 15:22:46 GMT

In order to change the width/thickness of a rectangle:

In the command window :

- type "Rectangle" enter

- type "w" for width, enter

- input line width of 0 and press enter.

This should correct the problem.