Line thickness are to thick when I plot - Help

[texaspete]

I have an HP 1050 color Plotter to open the question. This is the problem. When I plot the line thickness are to thick. I have in my config.pro these settings. Are they right?

pen1_line_weight 0.015 (Inches or Metric - I work in Metric)
pen2_line_wight 0.015
pen3_line_wight 1
pen4_line_wight 1
pen5_line_wight 1
pen6_line_wight 1
pen7_line_wight 1
pen8_line_wight 1

I don't know what the value mean.

Thanks Texaspete

 

[Tofflemire]

Hi Texaspete,

Here is my config.pro settings

!=========================================================
!== PLOTTING ==
!=========================================================
delete_after_plotting NO
plot_to_scale_full_window no
pen1_line_weight 4
pen2_line_weight 2
pen3_line_weight 2
pen4_line_weight 3
pen5_line_weight 2
pen6_line_weight 3
pen7_line_weight 1
pen8_line_weight 4

We had draftman in to set these up, but these were IAW drafting standards, I hope... I am guessing that these will work for Metric

Tofflemire

 

[houtex]

Specifying a Default Pen Mapping Table
The default pen mapping is always used unless another pen mapping file has been created and Pro/ENGINEER has been configured to use it. To specify the default pen mapping, remove any reference to pen table files from the config.pro and PCF files, and remove any file named table.pnt from all working directories.

When you specify a Pro/ENGINEER entity for plotting, the system assigns it a pen based on the default system color corresponding to this entity type. When it plots entities, it uses the line width and line font associated with a particular color. For example, the system uses pen #1 to plot all entities that appear in Pro/ENGINEER using the Geometry index (white by default) and have the same line width and thickness.

If your plotter supports eight plotter pens, and you want to use them for plotting, set the configuration file option use_8_plotter_pens to yes. The following table illustrates the default pen mapping that occurs. A plotter that supports four pens uses the first four pens listed in the table.

Pen Number
System Color
Mapping

Pen 1
Geometry (white)
Curve (dark blue)
Manufacturing Volume (purple)
Quilt (magenta)
Datum (brown)
Preselection Highlight (cyan)
Preview Geometry (yellow)
Secondary Preview Geometry (pale yellow)
Visible geometry (plot as solid lines, except where noted):
Cross-section cutting plane lines: plot as phantom lines
Cross-section cutting plane arrows and text
Drawing format and boundary
Tag text
Centerline line font with white color
Brown portion of datum planes

Pen 2
Letter (yellow)
All items plot as solid lines (except where noted):
Dimension lines
Leaders
Axes and centerlines: plot as centerlines
Geometric tolerance lines
All text (except cross-section text)
Balloon notes
Cross-hatching
Centerline line font with yellow color

Pen 3
Hidden Line (gray)
Hidden lines: plot as dashed lines, phantom font

Pen 4
Highlight-Primary (dark red)
Selected (red)
Secondary Selected (orange)
All items plot as solid lines:
Spline surface grid (does not plot in drawings)

Pen 5
Sheet Metal (dark green)
Sheet metal color entities

Pen 6
Sketched Curve (blue)
Sketcher section entities

Pen 7
Highlight- Secondary (dark gray)
Toggled sections, grayed dimensions and text, dimmed
tangent edges
Dark gray portion of datum planes

Pen 8
Highlight-Edge (green)
Spline surface grid

Example of line settings
(see two previous post)
pen1_line_weight 1
pen2_line_weight 1
pen3_line_weight 2
pen4_line_weight 3
pen5_line_weight 1
pen6_line_weight 5
pen7_line_weight 7
pen8_line_weight 16

Adding a range of 1-16 sets the line weight from 1 (thinnest) to 16 (thickness). Pen # corresponds to the type of line that is in the drawing as shown in the descriptions of pen 1 through pen 8.

Frank McDougle