Line become thicker on PDF

[Anonymous]

Hi!

When I export the layout the PDF the line become thicker. the layout set up for A4 size and i tried to change the line wight but nothing helped.

How can i fix it?

Thanks!

[maxim_k]

Hi Etay,

>>>>the line become thicker
It is getting thicker compared to what?
>>>>>i tried to change the line wight but nothing helped.
How did you tried to change line weight? Do you use line property in Properties Palette? Or you change Layer's lineweight property? Or you use plot style table file with specific lineweight?

Can you share an example of the drawing with the problem?

[Anonymous]

The second one is the PDF.

On a second look i see that the line that are thicker belong to the blocks that i downloaded. and its not all of them. as you can see the sink is thicker but the toilet is not.

any ideas?

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

maybe its because that when i load them their really small and i scale them to a bigger size? 

[maxim_k]

Scale doesn't affect lineweight.
You need to edit blocks and verify the properties of the objects which have thicker lineweight in PDF output. Maybe they have special lineweight assigned (thicker than you need), or maybe they have lineweight assigned "ByLayer" and that Layer has incorrect lineweight. It is hard to say anything without having your drawing at hand.

[Anonymous]

Ok i uploaded my drawing. can you take a look?

Thank you very very much! im new to autocad and doesn't really know well yet.

[maxim_k · Accepted solution]

If you want to be able to set Lineweight for block from Properties palette (as you do in your drawing- you set it to 0.05), you need to edit block definitions in Block Editor (double-click on block to open it in Block editor) and set Lineweight for all objects inside block to "ByBlock":

Here are some useful links about editing blocks:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad-for-mac/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2018/E...

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad-for-mac/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2018/E...

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad-for-mac/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2018/E...

I also attached your drawing in which I already modified some of the blocks and set Lineweight property for the objects inside these blocks to "ByBlock".

[Anonymous]

Thank you very much! you helped me a lot

Do you know if theres a way to fix it that every time i load a block it will automatically set to "by block"? or should i do it manually every time?

Thanks! 

[maxim_k]

You always should do it manually.
On the other hand if all objects inside block were created on layer 0 and their Lineweight property set to "ByLayer", then you can insert such block to some layer and lineweights of the elements inside block will take Lineweight property from the layer on which they were inserted.