Drawing Lineweight

[koltonmcconkey]

Hi everyone I was just doing a project and converted my model into a drawing and printed it and realized the lines were way too thick. I've tried messing around with it in AutoCAD. As far as I know theres no way to change lineweight of drawings directly in Fusion. So if someone could help me out that'd be great! 🙂 I was also wondering if there was a way to edit the drawing views, like doing things such as deleting or adding lines and such. They seem to be set as blocks or something like that?

Thanks guys 🙂 

[eellenburg]

Nevermind.  For some reason this doesn't save the views.  It works with standard AutoCAD files but not with Fusion DWGs.

You can save a DWG from Trueview.  Make sure the command line is on (ctrl + 9 to turn on).

Click the layer button & make changes to the lineweight.

Press the up arrow on the keyboard & -layer should show in the command line.

Backspace to clear -layer.  Type -wblock and press enter key.

Type new dwg filename in the dialog box & click OK.

Type * and press enter to save the new drawing.

[Anonymous]

I don't think the developers of Fusion understand the commercial flow on effect to users when they do not implement changes or fix flawed features quick enough.

I don't want to hear about Roadmaps or Timelines. Modern Business can't always work to that lax time span.

Simple, correct outputting of of a users work is up and running on most Apps in the earliest days of an App's birth.

I am only here now because I keep getting email updates regarding this link.

And because updates take forever with this App I've stopped using it, and soon I will cease my subscription.

I don't want my Apps to be that difficult to implement standard features or demand that much patience from me. 

I hope that hits home with the snails pace of implementation surrounding Fusion.

[Anonymous]

Loading a saved DWG from the 2D in Autocad Trueview, adapting several parameters (that you can not save), exporting to PDF is indeed a solution... but suitable for a few times. Doing this on a regular basis or adapting a small error takes a huge amount of time.

But indeed, it is possible..

[Anonymous]

Wouldn't it have been nice if you could have saved.....

But anyway it has been 5 months and even the hint of changing the application default way to thick lineweights into something a little bit more reasonable is to much work?

Come on I know I am not paying for fusion360 and really apreciating that fact but there are ppl that do pay for this app and would like to be able to view the things they designed on paper!

At the very least let a seasoned autocad person look ate the lineweights and suggest a reasonable default and change those default PRONTO in the output modules.

Or just use the thicknesses that are shown on screen that is readable. The prints or pdf output are not readable!

Just pretty please ..... This can't be more then a days work(i'd even say hour work if you know where those defaults are written in the code)

it looks like the "dpi" setting of all output is the same, so display to printer. If all output is now on 75dpi make the pdf or print output 300dpi dwg output you have to change lineweights.

Quick solution for users

Use a sheet 2 or 3 times bigger then you need and just print smaller from pdf. I just did a test from a drawing I want on an A4 set it up on an A1 and then it looks ok in acrobat reader.

This is a lot faster for new drawings then adjusting the lightweights in trueview.

Downside you would have to redo the drawing setup a little bit whenever the team decides to change the lineweights to reasonable defaults.

p.s. could someone please change this topic to not answered ..... it bugs me 😉

[Anonymous]

cmiller66,

So it has been almost a year .....

Eventhough a way of adjusting the lineweights might be hard to implement it can't be that hard to put some sensible lineweights as defaults in the program.

I love the new sheets, the fact i can turn parts on and off and all but did anyone in the design team ever try to print one of the sheets?

I know paper is ancient but could we please have some for in the shop where i don't want to have my laptop getting dusty and oily.

All the best

[cmiller66]

Hi wportegijs,

I just re-forwarded this request to the team. As you've seen (browser, multi-sheet) we are working our way down our "To Do"list, and better property control (Linetype, Lineweight) are something we are planning.  We are definitely aware of the request. Sorry for any inconvenience this is causing.

Thanks,

Chris

[Anonymous]

I appreciate the forward for a request to make lineweight user adjustable.

However could you prioritize a request of changing the default lineweights to something more sensible. That should be a simple and fast fix. If the the lineweight could just be 1/3th of what it they are now it would be already so much better.

thnx

[Anonymous]

Here is a workaround suggestion I have until Fusion sorts this issue out. It relies on having Adobe Illustrator or similar vector drawing program.

Export from Fusion as PDF.

Open/Import file to Illustrator.

Select one line with the 'direct selection' tool, and then click through the menu bar to Select > Same > Stroke Weight.

*alternatively select same stroke colour, but this will grab dimensions and leaders too

Adjust stroke weight as needed.

It's not ideal to have to do this extra work, so we still hope Fusion gets it fixed, but it will give you presentable drawings.

[Anonymous]

Thank you very much for the workaround.

Thank you for the effort in discovering this and passing this along.

But me having to open up the PDF in Illustrator (And I am extremely proficient in Illustrator) and adjust the linework that way, is like me doing something in Microsoft Word, that App missing something, and me having to take the Word file over to Apple's Pages just to get a decent, complete document. In the simplest, most polite term, that is BS.

As I've said before, while the guys at AutoDesk treat CRUCIAL UPDATES like a career path and not a fix-today action, I'm not using Fusion. Forget it.

(And thanks for reminding me to cancel my subscription! Why should I pay the wages of these developers, when they can't develop complete functional Apps)

Let's all say it slowly.......'The developers struggle to control the linework we want to view and print'.....'The developers struggle to control the linework we want to view and print'

Thanks Again for your post. (Now back to good Apps that can control the linework)

(Psst: I now use Sketchup + a mid-range renderer, happy to be without all these Fusion issues, and I don't have to get bogged down in stupid concepts like having to create everything on a dumb plane) Fusion is beautiful to look at at Render stage. But so is my cat, and it has no idea how to output linework either. 

[Anonymous]

Thank You very much for this "work around"!!!  Odd to me that AutoCAD full versions can not modify a Fusion drawn object block but TrueView can.  This has been driving me crazy for over a year!!!  Again.... TY!!

[Anonymous]

who says autocad (lite) is not able to do it?

And check out the other workaround i have given which is less work then the open in another program is 😉

 https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/design-validate-document/drawing-lineweight/m-p/6898743#M99805

[Anonymous]

+1

Also looking forward to see an option to change line weight. There's a gap in my drawing but in PDF it's not visible and it leaves wrong impression.

I don't yet pay for subscription so i can't complain much, but for serious jobs in future it's certainly needed.

PS.

Alternative option is to add feature to output screen content as PNG file with custom resolution/DPI. Then users can save that to PDF.

[Anonymous]

Thx for the implementation!!

[Anonymous]

"Implementation"? Have they fixed it? You can now change the line point thickness?

[Anonymous]

Only selexion thinner lineweight for pdf

[Anonymous]

I did not try to print it, but turning off the lineweight should work if you need a print to work in the shop.

It is not something I would want to show a client 😉 , but I am not using it for that anyway.

It is a BIG improvement.

[cmiller66]

Thanks wportegijs.

Just to add some more detail, we didn't (yet) implement individual lineweight control for different objects in the drawing. What we added was a checkbox to allow you to turn off lineweights (all go to 0) when outputting a PDF.  This isn't the final solution, but for now adding this did take care of some user's needs.  Leaving the checkbox checked results in the same PDFs we've had in the past.

Thanks,
Chris

[Anonymous]

This is much better when printing. On the same note, if printed drawing looks to light try setting your printer DPI to something lower. Our laser printer defaults to 600 DPI and drawing printed very light. So i tried setting DPI to HQ1200 and it got worse. Then i set it to 300 DPI and drawing is much better.

Thanks,

Troy

[roger]

With the new version for me it looks OK now!

[Anonymous]

What is the line weight of Fusion 360 in the drawing mode?  I am interested in using the drawing for laser cutting using the Epilog Laser Cutter.  It specifies that line weight must be 0.001" for vector cutting.

Is there a way to edit the drawing and eliminate construction lines?