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Why is my block reference not darkened. I try to edit the line weight properties but still did not change anything

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:48:02 GMT

Why is my block reference not darkened. I try to edit the line weight properties but still did not change anything. Is there something to do with block in place? Anybody kind to help?

Re: Why is my block reference not darkened. I try to edit the line weight properties but still did not change anything

jggerth — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:50:21 GMT

post your drawing file -- lots of possible ways to get that result

Re: Why is my block reference not darkened. I try to edit the line weight properties but still did not change anything

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:54:31 GMT

Here u go. Mind helping and inform me how u do it?

Re: Why is my block reference not darkened. I try to edit the line weight properties but still did not change anything

GeeHaa — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 13:55:43 GMT

If it's an Xref it's supposed to be like that. But if you want to change it you can type options->Display Tab-Fade Control Xref Disply Slider in the lower right.

Re: Why is my block reference not darkened. I try to edit the line weight properties but still did not change anything

pendean — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 14:12:28 GMT

The lines INSIDE the block are predefined with an LWEIGHT setting, instead of BYBLOCK or BLYLAYER which would allow you to change the LWEIGHT outside of the block.

Re: Why is my block reference not darkened. I try to edit the line weight properties but still did not change anything

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 14:17:38 GMT

I have tried this but it still couldn’t work. Mind helping? The dwg is attached above. And also mind teaching me step by step?

Re: Why is my block reference not darkened. I try to edit the line weight properties but still did not change anything

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 14:26:54 GMT

I have tried this too. But it didn’t work. 😞

Re: Why is my block reference not darkened. I try to edit the line weight properties but still did not change anything

pendean — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 15:06:03 GMT

Double-click on each block to open it in the Block Editor.
Select all objects, then in PROPERTIES command change the category LINEWEIGHT to BYBLOCK or BYLAYER.
Close the block editor an save your changes.

Repeat for each and very block in your DWG file. Each one.

That's all you need to do.

Re: Why is my block reference not darkened. I try to edit the line weight properties but still did not change anything

jggerth — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 15:29:05 GMT

First thing, learn what LAYERS are, and how you can use them to control Display and Plotting. Managing things with ByObject properties is painful, and very very inflexible.

Re: Why is my block reference not darkened. I try to edit the line weight properties but still did not change anything

beyoungjr — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 16:32:28 GMT

Hi,

I checked your drawing and lineweight appears to be working with no issues.

A simple test you can do to be confident in how things are working in the supplied drawing is to open the block that is in the top view of your left-most assembly drawing example. Double click it or right-click and open the block editor.

Then draw a few offensive lines across your block and notice that their lineweight property is set as BYLAYER. Change their lineweight to .8 or something large and offensive.

Now ensure that lineweight display is turned on by setting LWDISPLAY to a value of 1.

Notice in the block editor that your new lines are indeed thicker appearing than your original gray lines (.05mm).

You should also verify for yourself that the appearance is similar outside of the block editor.

Exit the block editor and save your changes.

Again, turn on LWDISPLAY and zoom in to verify that you see a lineweight difference.

The undo command is handy so that you can reverse your changes. Or you could close and re-open your drawing without saving.

As others have suggested, it is most appropriate to use your layers and assign lineweight for best performance and efficiency.

Set all of your entities in the drawings and in the blocks to BYLAYER and place objects on layers appropriately. Then set a desired color, lineweight, or linetype for your layers.

I see you are using layers so some extent now but maybe try a bit more usage.

Hope this helps,

Blaine

Re: Why is my block reference not darkened. I try to edit the line weight properties but still did not change anything

GeeHaa — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 20:42:58 GMT

There is a SETBYLAYER command that may help with this.

Re: Why is my block reference not darkened. I try to edit the line weight properties but still did not change anything

Anonymous — Fri, 09 Apr 2021 15:49:34 GMT

Thank u so much for the detailed explanation. This really helped me alot