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Using 2017 ACA. My boss is pretty pick about standards even though there were none before I started working here. Well, the standards before that the last guy used was he would copy stuff from another drawing then match properties to get stuff correct in the new drawing. Yeah, I'm not doing that. I got a layer standard set up and another layer standard for DEMO. Now all my components come in at a grey scale or line weight that seem to work for all the scales we use. I trial and errored to find a happy medium so things look good in 1/4 scale and also 1" scale printed.
The only tweak I'd like to do that has come up so far is with CMU detail components. When I select the file core options. The hatch grey scale I made my layer standard is just too light when you have a wall detail at 1" or 1 1/2" scale. I would like to either change the core file hatch to texture pattern from stipple or up the stipple hatch scale to make it show up more. I want this to happen in all CMU so I want to change the recipe. I tried looking in the knowledge base and it just links me in circles not really telling me how to do it.
What I've been doing to get around this is in a temp drawing I put a cmu in then edit the block to have the hatch I want or make a new layer that is a little bolder in the grey scale. Renaming it and wblocking it. Then adding it to my actual drawing and using a block replace lisp to swap out the cmu blocks to the one that is a little bolder hatch.
Nick DiPietro
Cad Manager/Monkey
Using 2017 ACA. My boss is pretty pick about standards even though there were none before I started working here. Well, the standards before that the last guy used was he would copy stuff from another drawing then match properties to get stuff correct in the new drawing. Yeah, I'm not doing that. I got a layer standard set up and another layer standard for DEMO. Now all my components come in at a grey scale or line weight that seem to work for all the scales we use. I trial and errored to find a happy medium so things look good in 1/4 scale and also 1" scale printed.
The only tweak I'd like to do that has come up so far is with CMU detail components. When I select the file core options. The hatch grey scale I made my layer standard is just too light when you have a wall detail at 1" or 1 1/2" scale. I would like to either change the core file hatch to texture pattern from stipple or up the stipple hatch scale to make it show up more. I want this to happen in all CMU so I want to change the recipe. I tried looking in the knowledge base and it just links me in circles not really telling me how to do it.
What I've been doing to get around this is in a temp drawing I put a cmu in then edit the block to have the hatch I want or make a new layer that is a little bolder in the grey scale. Renaming it and wblocking it. Then adding it to my actual drawing and using a block replace lisp to swap out the cmu blocks to the one that is a little bolder hatch.
Nick DiPietro
Cad Manager/Monkey
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I found a manual for ACA 2011. The PDF is 4000 pages! It has a chapter on changing the recipes. You change them in the xml code. I read a few pages of the chapter but need to read it thoroughly. It's won't be a simple process. I might try it on my laptop at home. I think I have a student version of ACA still on that. In case I break something badly it won't screw up my workstation.
Here's a link to the pdf that has the solution in it so I can close out this thread as solved. Unless someone has an easier way to edit what I want or a lisp.
Nick DiPietro
Cad Manager/Monkey
I found a manual for ACA 2011. The PDF is 4000 pages! It has a chapter on changing the recipes. You change them in the xml code. I read a few pages of the chapter but need to read it thoroughly. It's won't be a simple process. I might try it on my laptop at home. I think I have a student version of ACA still on that. In case I break something badly it won't screw up my workstation.
Here's a link to the pdf that has the solution in it so I can close out this thread as solved. Unless someone has an easier way to edit what I want or a lisp.
Nick DiPietro
Cad Manager/Monkey
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