Color Lines 2

[laelow]

How can I assign everything that's with a grey line to print thicker than all the other line that are black?

 

[chancey]

Are you talking about lines on the edit sheet format layer? Using the line format toolbar you can specify the thickness of the line. You can assign how thick each of these lines will plot in the print dialogue box under line weights. Hope that helps.

 

[SBaugh]

In a drawing, use the Line format toolbar - Line thickness Icon. This will only work for object lines. If you are talking about reference dimensions then you need to change the color at the System Options\Color\Driven Dimensions

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[laelow]

From what I hearing from all of you guys, it look though I can't do what I'm talking about. When i make a drawing I have two types of thickness [Thin] and [Norm] when I make the object [norm] it displays it pretty thick on my screen, so I was wondering if I could print color to a thickness, or can I somehow display a [norm] line a little thinner on the screen ?

 

[ctopher]

Is it printing what you see on your screen? or normal printing?

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[laelow]

It prints what I see on my screen which is cool, but the [Norm] line weight option just looks nasty when you zoom out on a "E-Size" sheet of paper. The title block looks like a sqaure donut. When I change my title block linetypes back to [Thin] then I can see my logo and actually see all the items I've drawn and see the BOM.

So I just wanted to know If I could print to color and just leave everything in my drawing all [Thin] line so I can actually see what I'm drawing. I don't know If I'm making sense here?

 

[ctopher]

Check your video card and drivers.

Chris
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[laelow]

Its looks like this on all twelve engineering department monitors. We've swithed from pro-e to solidworks about a four weeks ago, so I didn't know if we where the only company in the world that's have this problem or not?

 

[laelow]

ctopher I think my only option is to leave everything as a [Thin] line. Because I don't think [norm] is going to work for us here.

 

[MElam]

If you are more concerned with how the drawing prints than how it appears on screen - have you tried assigning how thick each of these lines will plot in the print dialogue box under line weights as chancey stated?

 

[laelow]

It's the opposite I want everthing to appear thin on my screen but when I print I only want a few lines just be a thicker. But I hae a feeling I'm sol. But thanks for your help though MElam.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

the [Norm] line weight option just looks nasty when you zoom out on a "E-Size" sheet of paper

Are you printing an "E-size" drawing at scale = 100% or printing a smaller size drawing at scale = enlarged to fit?

If you are doing the "enlarge to fit" ... don't. Create the drawing using an E-size border & set the views to Use sheet scale. Set your sheet scale to whatever scale is necessary to fit your full size views.


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[aamoroso]

Check the resolution of the printer as well.

 

[laelow]

I think that will work on small object, but I've drawn objects that seventy to eigthy yard and small assy attached to the over assy look like black ink spots on the screen, it print perfect when you plot. So what I have done now is change everything drawn to [Thin]. So all the other assy like valves, pcb and other items, are actually displayed in the assembly drawing on the screen. In other programs you can see everything thin while your'e making a drawing but when you print, it print accord to the colors that you have set within the program. I would like to thank all of you guys for helping me, it kinda looks like I've answered my own question.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

You could look at using Breaks in your views. Then you would be able to decrease the sheet scale. Also using Detail views would enlarge the views without affecting the line widths sent to the printer.


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[MadMango]

To clarify, laelow wants to change the line wieghts of his printed line.

Go to File> Print> Line Weights. There you can specify the line width for a given line type.

I hope that helps.

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[MElam]

But the problem is - he wants to print different Thin lines to different thicknesses.