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Changing lineweights in different sheets

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 02:17:54 GMT

I've got a general drawing template set up for pdf printing sheets into 1"50 scale @ A3. Inside the template I've set the lineweights to 0.18mm. I've tried using a lineweight of 0.00, but I get some clashing on either pdf prints or digital pdf viewing due to pixelation etc.

I'm printing a very large area drawing, approximately 500mX500m and wanted to print 68 sheets of 1:250 and then have a large not to scale general arrangement drawing on the back sheet. Because I've got the lineweights set-up as 0.18mm, when I look at the GA sheet the lines bleed all over each other. I've googles changing lineweights in the pagesetup, but I can't seem to get anything to change on the plotted drawings. I upped the lineweight scaling to 1:2000, but it looks about the same as if I hadn't changed the output plotting.

What I wanted to be able to do was change the lineweights to 0.00 in the GA sheet, but I'm thinking now this might not be possible.

Re: Changing lineweights in different sheets

S.Faris — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 05:32:57 GMT

I assume that you are managing the lineweights using either Layer properties on Object Properties.

Try doing this:

Make sure you have a plotstyle assigned in in plot window.
"Plot Object lineweights" should be marked with a tick.
Make sure that the Lineweight of all the colors inside the "plotstyle table editor" is set to "Use Object lineweight"

Re: Changing lineweights in different sheets

S.Faris — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 06:42:16 GMT

Also make a copy of the plot style used and change the lineweight in that and use it for the GA.

Re: Changing lineweights in different sheets

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 22:49:54 GMT

Only just plotted another GA. Thx for the tip. Once the plotstyle was set up I just changed the pagesetup for the GA sheet and changed "Use Object Lineweight" to lineweight of 0.000. Worked perfectly. TY