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 🙂 

[Anonymous]

I am not someone who needs the drawing features much as you can see....... But it seems there were still ppl complaining in June this year(2018) so it might be a very recent fix....

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-ideastation/drawing-line-weights/idi-p/6880620

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-ideastation/control-of-line-weights-in-drawing-mode/idi-p/...

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-design-validate/line-thickness/m-p/8089913

BUT is it actually fixed? 🙂 😉 as in are there sensible defaults now next to the tickbox "no lineweights".....

I made a pdf from a drawing just now and no drama, I did not think about it until I realized it looked good and it did not used to look this good, it looks like it was on the screen, NO I take that back.

THE PRINT(pdf) LOOKS BETTER then the screen output. The line-weights are sensible now and in the drawing environment there are no line-weights right now, the dimension lines are as thick as the drawing lines.

BUT BUT BUT We can print and show the drawings to clients ... if I had any ;)

Thanks team, my biggest 2 issues have been solved

- being able to select which bodies are shown in the drawing (last year)

- a reasonable print output (please keep the no line-weights tickbox, can be useful sometimes)

p.s. Why you are only getting a reasonable print output score even-though the print looks great at first glance, its not user adjustable. Not a complaint but if you want me to give your an excellent print output score you know what to do 😉

[Anonymous]

Same issue I am facing trying to produce a professional technical manufacturing drawing.

I don't understand how Fusion is not making fundamental design tools a priority. 

On a different subject  - the same encounter - No tools for creating draft angles from object split-lines.

These are deal-breakers in my opinion. 

My suggestion is - get the fundamentals right. eg: lineweights, drawing orientation, drafting capabilities and assembly/ exploded views. These are deal-breakers for Industrial Designers who are actually developing real products. Id rather have quality basic tools than wow-factor features like  rendering functionality or animation functionality.

My employer pays for several suits of Fusion360 and we have adopted it as our in-house design tool, but it keeps falling flat. I'm actually considering convincing them to reverse out of Fusion and find a more suitable built-for-purpose design for manufacturing tool.

Here is a photograph of an A3 exploded view printout. The vents on the side of the casing are solid black due to clumsy line-weight. Disappointing to say the least after spending hours wrestling with the software to produce an assembly, exploded view and drawing. If this is the output, then its just not worth the pain!

[Anonymous]

My last post was actually saying they fixed the line weights to reasonable defaults.

just to be sure..... could you post a picture of the whole layout? I can imagine not, for wanting to keep things secret 😉 but hey... if you want things solved on a public forum.

What you are showing seems like it is just a small part of the drawing, which would make that dense area actually be correct.

this might be a good example why no lineweights checkbox is a good option.

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:

My last post was actually saying they fixed the line weights to reasonable defaults.

just to be sure..... could you post a picture of the whole layout? I can imagine not, for wanting to keep things secret 😉 but hey... if you want things solved on a public forum.

What you are showing seems like it is just a small part of the drawing, which would make that dense area actually be correct.

this might be a good example why no lineweights checkbox is a good option.

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@Anonymous Thanks for your response. I actually managed to get a decent print out of the drawing after all - so I retract my frustration (in part) :).

Yes I checked the "no line weights" option when opening the PDF export wizard. The print is much better! 

Although when viewing the PDF drawing, the lines do not look good.

Attached screen grab of the PDF view and a photograph of the printout.

I just find it weird that there is a line weight functionality when editing the title block, but not for the actual parts in the drawing. Surely this functionality can translate?

So I get by another day using 360 🙂

H

[zhuravliki]

DWG export does not help at all. Changing line weight in dimensions layer is doing nothing in Fusion generated DWG file. I tried AutoCAD and TrueView. I can change the line colors, but not the thickness. Fusion drawings are not suitable for the production: equal lines weight creates non-readable output for anything little bit more complex than basic shapes. Unfortunately, almost all production plants operate with readable 2D drawings, so, Fusion 360, with missing basic functionality, completely useless for real world production businesses and can be considered as the software for amateur makers or the beginning engineering education.

[Anonymous]

Hi there, I have recently started to have a go with fusion 360 and I do think generally it is a good design software however the line weight issue is a problem for me. I have an education license at the moment just so I could have a go and see if I like it. I am hoping to use it on a commercial basis but the 2d drawing issue is a problem. The other issue is that the geometry does not show in non Autodesk apps like the one I use Turbocad. Is this issue going to be resolved as well. I hope these improvements are implemented because it would make fusion the best if not one of the best 2d and 3d drawing applications.

[Anonymous]

Frustrated.

I have spent several hours on a 2D drawing in Fusion and now I find I cant draw lines of different lineweight 😕

a fantastic program for 3D but 2D hmmmmm not so much 😕

[macklARP8B]

I'm not sure where Autodesk is with this feature, but I though I would chime in and say that this is still a desirable ability to have in the Fusion360 environment. Any further updates on when this would be available? 

[Anonymous]

Yes, any updates on when this feature will come? I've been waiting for 2 years to be able to use fusion for our shop drawings. But it's either super this lines, or super bold lines. neither are very usable

[TimeraAutodesk]

Thank you for following up with us on this feature request. It is still on our roadmap - which you can find HERE - but we unfortunately have not been able to get to it yet. 

Out of curiosity, do you need a full-blown lineweight editor (i.e. unique values per layer or per object) or would a few additional options for "bumping" up or down the universal lineweights across a drawing suffice?

Thanks in advance,

Timera

[Anonymous]

While I would love the fine detail of per layer settings. A global
lineweight scale setting would go a long way to making drawings more factory friendly.

[macklARP8B]

To me, having separate control over line weights by layer or type is
crucial to creating a shop drawing that is easy on the eyes and easy to
read. I think that for fusion to be used for creating professional looking
drawings long term you will need that ability.

IMO even a mildly complex drawing can get muddy very quickly if the wrong
lines are too heavy, or even if all of the lines are the same.

[Anonymous]

Hi

A few up or down options would work for me 🙂

Best regards

AJ

[zhuravliki]

We had the meeting regarding our company future development, including switching to new design software. Unfortunately, without ability to generate industry standard documentation and drawings, this great software still considered as good attachment to CNC machines and nothing more.

Please pay attention to current industrial workflows. Drawings are still the essential part of them now, and the things are not going to change in near future. Current Fusion 360 drawings is extremely limited and useless in industrial environment, which lead to guaranteed Fusion 360 failure as the main design platform.

[TimeraAutodesk]

@zhuravliki thanks for the candid feedback. As we've stated before, we're actively working on continuing to round out the functionality in the Drawings workspace, so thank you for your patience.

We adhere to industry standards for ISO and ASME when it comes to lineweights strictly, so can I ask which standard you're in need of, or which functionality in Drawings you feel doesn't live up to the standard?  More details on what, from your perspective, is missing is much more helpful, especially since we have lots of customers who are successfully using Drawings today, even in it's "limited" state, so I'd love to hear more about what makes it "useless" in your eyes. 

As always, feel free to check out our public roadmap as well to see the current status of projects as they move through the development cycle and to see what's coming up: https://app.mural.co/t/timerahart2/m/timerahart2/1475171276107/0945259b7c22117012173ea2be3c9151fec1f... 

Best,
Timera

[TimeraAutodesk]

Hi All, 

We are beginning to work on some line width / line weight support in Drawings, so I wanted to follow up with this thread with the good news 🙂 If you would like to see more details, and be a part of providing early feedback, please see this post on the Feedback Hub.

Best,

Timera

[pete]

This thread has been going on for YEARS now... We have Fusion360 at my workplace and I have been using it in my startup shop for awhile now. For the most part I had not the need for architect style drawings and standards but at work now we work directly with architects and designers who have been complaining about our drawing line weights.  It is very frustrating to have worked for hours on a design and getting everything correct only to move it to the drawing space and create drawings that draw complaints from professionals.  The base view/projected views and most of the functionality is very nice and I can certainly present my parts and assemblies in a professional manner but the line weights and inability to color parts and text etc is really a problem.  I recently made a custom articulated louver design for a customer and while it looked great the drawing looked muddy and unclear.  I tried changing the sizes and scale of things as much as I could but no matter what I did the drawing was muddy.  I was forced to take the drawing and REDRAW it in autocad so I could get the line weights where I needed them. This is really a problem and while I realize that everything is 3D now almost all of our customers expect a quality 2D drawing with title block and legible dimensions and line weights.  Speaking of title blocks, the idea that you cannot copy and paste multiple text cells from one to another drawing is REALLY frustrating as well. This seems like it should be a simple thing to select multiple cells and copy and paste.  You cannot even just select the cell, you have to open the text dialogue and copy and paste the typed text.   I have to agree with the other comments here these are things that any professional software would have taken care of before launching.   The fact that it has taken YEARS to get to it is unbelievable.  I agree that you must have the basic fundamental capabilities in there before you worry about renderings and some of the other non essentials.  

     I am not here to just bash either,   I am a BIG fan of Fusion360. It truly has changed my game and allowed me to move into work I would have had difficulty with easily. Thank you for all you guys do here.  I truly hope that it comes into its own and these things get ironed out quickly. 

[Anonymous]

I am also looking forward to seeing this implemented. It is essential.

[adamjames95]

@koltonmcconkey ,

New line-weights being added in the near future!

Check out the coming updates in the Roadmap with regards to line-weights!

https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog/timera-time-drawings-roadmap-and-update/

-Adam James

[macklARP8B]

Excellent! Thank You!