Drawing - fine tune control

[scotty71]

I see headway is finally being made to the drawings. Not really an "evil" - shop drawings for some of us are hugely important. 

I still want to see control over thickness of lines of items, and even sizes arrows.  Right now, I'm having to put it on a full-size sheet, then print it on a 17 x 11 sheet (shrunk to 32%) to get a nice clean line set. 

Control of the title block and its size would be great too.  

And I've asked - but it's worth mentioning again so maybe it gets attention:  weld symbols!  Even being able to do some minor drawing inside that section of Fusion would be worth while too.  

But, mainly: being able to control the appearance of the drawing and its elements are big things for detailed drawings on smaller sheet sizes, especially when my work is measured in 10s of feet. 

[Anonymous]

I agree with you, the lines on the PDF are way too thick. Please solve this problem as these drawings are not very professional... or is there a solution already to make them looking thinner on the PDF? For the rest; fusion 360 is awesome!

Grts

[scotty71]

One trick I came across, and it's a HUGE workaround, but for me at least, it works.  

Because of the limitations in addressing line thickness, the things I design and draw up are huge (like 8' by 24' long) and at 11x17 (using Fusion's template) it just makes all the lines run together. 

What I've done, is start my drawing on an larger sheet. Say, 34x22 or what I go straight to:  34x44.   When I do that, I can fit more items on the sheet, then I send to a PDF.  When I go to print from an 11x17 printer, I shrink the output to 32%, and I get some very nice detailed lines and it looks alright. I lose a little bit of real estate length-wise because that's just how scaling works - BUT - I get a very fine detailed drawing.

I do bump my annotation height to 0.24" and it seems to turn out nice.   

Give it a shot!  I'd like to know if it works for you to (at least until we have a better way). 

-Scott

[Anonymous]

Hi Scott,


Thanks for your answer and help. It also worked with me, but I need to adapt then also my titleblocks, etc...


I found another solution from wportegijs; https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/design-validate-document/drawing-lineweight/m-p/5559498#M10458



make a dwg of your file



open it in dwg trueview (dwg file viewer)



change lineweights in the layer dialog



visible narrow to 0.09

visible to 0.13

dimensions to 0.09

hidden to 0.09

there are more depending on your drawing

you could change the others to but they were not important to me



then plot to pdf


This is also working with me, but still is a big workaround 😞


Grts