topic Re: Polyline doesn't match layer thickness despite thickness being set to "by layer" in AutoCAD Forum

Polyline doesn't match layer thickness despite thickness being set to "by layer"

tgalanel — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 11:03:50 GMT

As the title says, my line shows up thicker than it should based on the layer thickness (.15mm).

Please excuse me if this is a basic problem I am new and haven't been able to find the cause of this in days.

Attaching screenshots of line properties and layer properties. As well as the dwg file itself.

Thank you.

Re: Polyline doesn't match layer thickness despite thickness being set to "by layer"

Kent1Cooper — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 10:34:42 GMT

What you mean is lineweight, not thickness. "Thickness" is up off the page in the Z direction.

Some of your Polylines have non-zero width, which will override the lineweight setting. If you want the appearance to be controlled by the lineweight, make all Polylines have a global width of zero. You can select them all collectively and fix that for all in the Properties palette:

And set the PLINEWID System Variable to zero, so that subsequently-drawn Polylines will have it that way. That is set at 0.05 in the drawing as posted, and the Polylines I checked had that, so they were apparently drawn with that setting in place.

Re: Polyline doesn't match layer thickness despite thickness being set to "by layer"

tgalanel — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 11:03:37 GMT

Thank you! This worked