topic Re: Print Thin Lines to PDF in Revit MEP Forum

Print Thin Lines to PDF

antonio_roquette — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 13:23:47 GMT

I´m having trouble with printing Thin lines to PDF. I've read some posts, and found a way to make the standard lines have the same width as Thin Lines, but when my pipes go up or down, it doesn't get thin:

Any ideas on how to solve that, and that dashed line on the pipe?

Re: Print Thin Lines to PDF

mikewp90 — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 14:02:41 GMT

Easy enough to do, you would need to override your model categories in your view template (ie. visibility graphics) to be line weight 1 or whatever "thin" line weight you have set up in your project.

Line weights are conrtrolled globally in object styles:

Or per view in visibility graphics.

Avoid using 'view specific element overrides' if you can:

Linked models can be controlled by setting them to underlay, or changing your view discipline. Ex. a mechanical pipe layout drawing with the discipline set to 'Mechanical' will make your architectural background underlay. Adjust these settings here in 'additional settings'

Betreff: Print Thin Lines to PDF

iainsavage — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 20:54:48 GMT

Firstly, are you sure that screenshot is not showing colour fill in the pipes? It doesn't look like just lines.

Secondly, to add to what @mikewp90 said you can also set the pen widths in the Manage > Additional Settings > Line Weights dialogue and can have different settings at different scales (optionally).

So "Lineweight 1" doesn't on its own specify the width of the line, you also need to check what the setting is in the pen table.

E.g. below (from a default Autodesk template) lineweight 1 is 0.18mm up to 1:50 scale view but then 0.1mm in 1:100 and larger scales.

Lineweights 2 and upwards have a much greater sensitivity to view scale e.g. lineweight 4 goes from 0.7mm to 0.18mm as scale changes.

Betreff: Print Thin Lines to PDF

iainsavage — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 20:58:47 GMT

....and just to be clear the Thin Lines button

has ZERO effect on the printed output, it is only a screen effect to allow clearer visualisation of the model whilst editing it.