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Dimensioning - Extension line weight when printing

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loworange88

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Apr 30, 2009
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Hello. I have a template file that has a lineweight setting that is giving me a hard time. When I print a drawing I get one of the extension lines on all linear dimensions shows as a thicker lineweight than the rest of the dimension. I have tried to edit the dimensions lineweights by right clicking and going to settings...both line types and weights are the same. Any advice on where to look to change this is appreciated.

Side note: Sometimes, just sometimes I see this thick extension line in sketch mode as well not necessarily in parts from the said template file.

This image shows my Drafting settings for the selected dimension:
Lineweight_drafting_1_q5taaj.jpg


This image is my exported PDF
Lineweight_drafting_vv4vgz.jpg


My print properties widths are set to standard on the PDF export dialog box.

Thanks.
 
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Sometime one need to "kick" objects into making a change, else it "doesn't realize" that it should update.
i.e, select the dimensions, go settings and set the width to say 2 mm ( =some value that none of them has)
hit apply,
Then set the line thickness as it should, this should "wake up" these settings such that they are changed in all places.

Regards,
Tomas

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Cowski, Not necessarily all the drawings, but recently I'd say more than 80% of them. All new drawings created from this particular template, anything older than the template not necessarily.
 
This may be a mapping issue in your print/plot settings.
 
One thing to note.....we do all our drafting sheets in Monochrome. I did change colors for giggles to black, and all the lines appeared to be "bold" When I changed the color to pale gray, they seemed to be thin after printing to PDF.
 
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