Lineweights are thick when exporting to .PDF

[SteveFrey]

How can I export an .IDW to a .PDF while keeping the lineweights very thin?  I've tried exporting to PDF, printing to PDF, exporting to .DWG then exporting to PDF, etc. but nothing seems to get the lines as thin as I'd like them to be.  I have both Adobe Acrobat DC and BlueBeam Review Extreme. Bluebeam seems to do a better job at creating the PDF because there's more control over what it spits out but I can't figure out which way I should be approaching this.  If I turn off the shaded view in my .IDW I get a better quality output because the shading pixelates.  Is there a third party app that will correct this?  Anyone else have this problem?  There's got to be a workaround for this.  Thanks!

[Jacob_Butler]

Try removing line weight option when you go to export. You can also edit styles, see: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcartic...

[SteveFrey]

I tried that.  It helps but the lines are still too thick.  They are set to .001 in the styles manager.

[mcgyvr]

In Adobe pdf viewer press ctrl + 5

Also located at view...Show/Hide...Rulers/Grid...lineweights

[SteveFrey]

This will allow the end user to adjust the lineweights if they know about this shortcut.  I'm trying to present a document to them that is ready to view by anyone. 

[mcgyvr]

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@SteveFrey wrote:

This will allow the end user to adjust the lineweights if they know about this shortcut.  I'm trying to present a document to them that is ready to view by anyone. 

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Talk to adobe.... Its their software.. their function.. Nothing you can do about it..

wait till you try 3d PDF and find out that Adobe by default blocks 3d content and one must enable it (if they know how)..

Thats my biggest pet peeve about 3d PDFs now.. 

[SteveFrey]

I dread talking to Adobe. I have Adobe Acrobat by our company default but it's terrible.  Bluebeam is so much better and less than half the cost.  I'm more trying to determine if I should be hitting the PRINT button in Inventor or the EXPORT to pdf.  I think if I figure that part out first then I might be on the right track.  Thanks.

[mcgyvr]

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@SteveFrey wrote:

I dread talking to Adobe. I have Adobe Acrobat by our company default but it's terrible.  Bluebeam is so much better and less than half the cost.  I'm more trying to determine if I should be hitting the PRINT button in Inventor or the EXPORT to pdf.  I think if I figure that part out first then I might be on the right track.  Thanks.

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I agree... Bluebeam is much better (and cheaper I believe) we started using it here too..

I just bought the new Adobe PRO DC yesterday just to work with 3d PDF templates in Inventor.. I hated having to do that.. But such is life..

OH and I always use print and pick the adobe pdf printer.. I've seen too many issues here that relate to Inventors built in PDF functionality (export) causing problems..

Only nice thing is that you can get layers via Inventor and I haven't tried/seen a way to do that via printing to adobe pdf.. But if you don't need layers (I never do) then print is better IMO