Having scaling problems with line weight

[Anonymous]

hey guys, 

I'm a real newbie to Autocad but I'm having problems with scaling. I have set the units to equal 1 meter. however the line thickness has other plans and seems to think I'm working in millimeters. this ends up with me having ridiculously thick lines? The grey blob in the center of my model (photo below) is 1 unit in length just so you guys know i haven't drawn it ridiculously small. ALSO when i copy autocad blocks which were created in measurements in millimeters into my model they are huge!! i thought they would convert into meters and be the right scale? but it seems they keep their unit measurement and just go from being millimeters to meters. I thought that i had drawn it small.. but as i said, 1 unit = 1 meter and i have consistently drawn my whole plans following mostly whole units.

If there is an easy fix please break it down step by step, button by button, as i said i am still extremely new!

[imadHabash]

Hi and Welcome to AutoCAD Foeum,

i suggest from LWEIGHT command line to adjust display scale ( maybe ) or see another options that may help . 

Regards,

[ChicagoLooper]

In your layer properties manager, change all of the line weight to default (the OOTB default is 0.25mm). It doesn't look like you're using an 'office standard' but drawing this as a school assignment or simply doing some self-training. Then if you have access to a printer, print the drawing. Look at the hardcopy and if you want it thinner, go back to your cad drawing and drop line weight down to 0.20 or 0.18. If you go thinner than that, the line will approach the barely visible realm when printed. If you go thicker, be judicious when dong so. For example, use 0.80 for your parcel line in your house drawing (phantom line type looks nice for parcels). For your walls, you'll want to draw a double line, one for exterior side and one for interior side. Don't use a single thick line to represent the wall. As it stands now, 0.50 is too thick, way too thick for glass. For your block, if they are annotative, and I think they are, change your insertion units to 'unitless' and you should be fine (let Cad to the scaling and figuring out how big to make them, don't 'force' meters onto an annotative block).