CTB file lineweights can be shown in model space?

[karenMV87H]

Hi!, is there a way to show the specific lineweight from the CTB file in the model space? 

I'm currently not using lineweights from the properties tab, but I have a client that wants to get her ctb file fixed. She is currently using two ctb files for her template, she says that she needs one for 11x17 format and the other one for 24x36, I want to know what is the best way to work with linethickness in Autocad.

Thanks

[cadffm · Accepted solution]

To show near to all plotstyle"overrides", set up your pagesetup to display them.

Command: PAGESETUP

Edit the model pagesetup, upper right corner.

Set plotstyletable and enable below the  Display plotstyle option.

Save/ok

Turn on display lineweight setting LWDISPLAY.

But: Autocad will not show the real lineweights, it is just a simple helper feature for the human in front, to show different lineweights on screen, but not the real ones.

", she says that she needs one for 11x17 format and the other one for 24x36"

It isn't a question of papersize, it is a questions of scale.

For a 1:20 detail, you can use thicker lweights, but the same part in 1:100 needs thinner lines to display clear all lines.

" I want to know what is the best way to work with linethickness in Autocad"

As so often, there is no best way, you have to find YOUR BEST WAY

🙂

"I'm currently not using lineweights from the properties tab"

Properties tab or Layer lineweights, I guess you mean you are plotting without lineweights 

OR or all objects with the same lweight,

right?

[pendean]

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@karenMV87H wrote:

Hi!, is there a way to show the specific lineweight from the CTB file in the model space? ....

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It's all or nothing, like this