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Plotting Line Weights

timc6CCUA — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 15:41:14 GMT

I cannot get my drawing to plot line weights. Everything is the same. They appear correctly in both paper space and model space. Will not plot to either pdf or platter.

Re: Plotting Line Weights

rkmcswain — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 15:49:51 GMT

Are you using Color Dependent or Named Plot Styles?

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/3PP-ACD-MAS-Wiley/files/GUID-35C46DD3-F77A-44D9-9B6A-66D2A489E3D5-htm.html

Perhaps you are assigning lineweights to objects but you have a .CTB file assigned to the page setup that you are printing, which ultimately determines lineweight.

There are many different ways to set up drawings for printing, and a lot of different variables involved.

What does the print PREVIEW look like?

Re: Plotting Line Weights

timc6CCUA — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 15:56:48 GMT

The preview does not show line weights either.
I used "Monochrome" and it appears to work right.
We have a plot style "ANVIL.ctb" set up. It must have something to do with this set up.
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Re: Plotting Line Weights

rkmcswain — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 16:00:44 GMT

Yes, your last sentence is probably the cause.

If you are using a CTB file, the colors in your drawing map to a color in the CTB, with a defined line weight, the CTB file setting wins.

It looks like you tried to include an image, but it failed.

Re: Plotting Line Weights

timc6CCUA — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 16:17:28 GMT

I am trying to send the screenshot.

My designer is on vacation and I am trying my best to not call him!

Re: Plotting Line Weights

rkmcswain — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 16:25:36 GMT

Your screenshot shows the setting for Color 1

You'd have to verify each color in the CTB to see what the lineweight is set to, and then compare that to the colors used in your drawing.

Re: Plotting Line Weights

timc6CCUA — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 16:37:48 GMT

I am a novice AutoCAD user. So this seems way to complicate to me. It seems like there should be a way to just print it the way it looks.
I will just have to wait for my designer to get back from Vacation.
Thanks for your help.

Re: Plotting Line Weights

rkmcswain — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 16:46:17 GMT

Unfortunately, by allowing users many options, comes complexity.

In summary: The LW setting in the CTB will override any LW setting applied to an entity in the drawing.

If you want to print it just like it looks on the screen, remove all CTB files (set it to None) - but you're not going to get any color mapping either. That means Red will print Red, Yellow will print Yellow, etc.

When a designer sits down to prepare a drawing (using the CTB method) he/she knows that by using RED, he/she will get a printed entity that is BLACK and 0.7mm wide, and YELLOW on the screen will be BLACK and 0.95mm wide, and so on and so on.

It all depends on how the CTB is set up.

And that is why nobody here can tell you exactly what to do since we don't know anything about your CTB files and we don't have the DWG file.

Good luck!

Re: Plotting Line Weights

timc6CCUA — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 17:20:46 GMT

After some tinkering, I see what it is doing. I am just not sure what the advantage is to doing that.

But I will have my designer explain it when he is back.

I see in the layer definitions, the layer has a line weight and plot color. If in the .ctb file, I change all of the "line weights" to "use object line weight", will it use the layer definition line weight for the plot LW?

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cadffm — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 18:14:00 GMT

Sure,
if an Object have the lineweight "bylayer", but lw 2.11, 0.7 ... are possible too for objects.