topic Re: Lineweight inside vs centered in AutoCAD Forum

Lineweight inside vs centered

jdfnnl — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 20:47:43 GMT

This structural cross section includes some new and existing elements, the latter I would like to emphasize with bolder line weights. However, in so doing the shapes bleed into the adjacent geometry and appear wider than shapes of the same size with thinner line weights. For example where the floor girder bleeding into the subfloor and the post appears wider than the supporting plate. This would all be avoided with the option to orient line thickness to one side rather than centered. In lieu of a simpler configuration, would it make sense to offset these lines half their lineweight?

Re: Lineweight inside vs centered

pendean — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 21:20:54 GMT

If I may ask... based solely on the dashed line 'BORDER" portion seen, are you really expecting your PDF recipient to zoom in that close, for real, to decipher your design intent? I hope not, if this detail is mission-critical you ought to have a significantly larger scale detail with notes/dimensions to clearly define your intent.

Re: Lineweight inside vs centered

rapidcad — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 13:04:39 GMT

Dean's right. I appears that you have a detail view called out for this in your screen shot so that should take care of it. Just one of the little annoyances that CAD introduced over hand drafting long ago. In fact, we used to have the same issue with our thicker pens when I used to draw ink on Mylar drawings -so in a strange sense, this is actually true to the way ink spreads form the center of the pen's nib. Although I loved drafting by hand and it had many little advantages (and taught us a lot), CAD is so much more productive once you master it.

Re: Lineweight inside vs centered

dany_rochefort — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 14:02:26 GMT

@jdfnnl No actually it wouldnt make sense to do that. There are industry drafting standards that should be respected in regards to layer and lineweight usage. If you are eyeballing the lineweights to your preferences, then you can do what you want. But... The point of using different lineweights is ''To differentiate between 2 distinct elements''. Which is what is being accomplished here.

You can choose to draft everything on the same layer as long as your callouts and piece marks and clearly labelled thoughout.