Line thickness

[stevo30]

Hi all,
Can anybody help me, i am using inventor 11 (not professional) and am looking to create 2D drawings which have the thick and thin line technique. (Thick on outside edges thinner when two faces are visible.) Can anybody point me in the direction of settings if this is possible.

Cheers

Stevo

 

[aardvarkdw]

RMB on the lines you wish to change. Select properties. uncheck the "By Standard" box. Change the "Line Weight" to the desired size.

 

[stevo30]

hi aardvarkdw,
Thanks for that suggestion which is one way around it, i wonder though can the views automatically do this when they are placed?

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Stevo

 

[aardvarkdw]

Stevo,

Try this, go to format in your tool bar, select standards, select the "common" tab. You can set up the line weights there for the individual line types but it wont allow you to adjust for line placement. I am assuming from your question that this is for technical illustration purposes? What you can do is if you get things set up more or less how you want it to be you can then save the drawing as "standard" in your templates folder and then every drawing you create from that template will have your settings.

David