Line weight auto adjustment... does it exist?

[evolDiesel]

We have A,B,C,D size prints. A common practice for us is to take a big D-size drawing (slddrw) and quickly print a B-size hard copy to markup. The problem is that the line weights seem to stay the same size we would want on a D-size, which is huge and blobby on a B-size. Things that should have finer detail like threads are now a big black blob.

What I'm looking for is a way to plot D-size drawings to A and B-size and have the line weights auto adjust to a finer size so we don't end up with black blobs. I'm surprised this isn't a simple checkbox somewhere in the system options, document properties, or printer/plotter options.

Any guidance is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jack

Jack Lapham, CSWP
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[handleman]

Save as TIF using the print capture option, specifying a D-size print. Print the TIF on a B size using Irfanview, Picture & Fax Viewer, etc.

Or do the same with PDF.

That's what comes to mind immediately. I don't remember any option for "scale lineweights" or similar, but there may be one.

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

 

[evolDiesel]

I did that method using PDF as an intermediate file type and it looks a little better. I really wish there was a setting for this... it seems like the obvious choice if you were to take a native D-size and print it down to A, you would want everything including line weights to scale down. Hmmm....



Jack Lapham, CSWP
Engr Sys Admin
Dell M6400 Covet (24 Season 8, Ep 22)
Intel Core 2 Duo T9800, 2.93GHz, 1066MHZ 6M L2 Cache
8.0GB, DDR3-1066 SDRAM, 2 DIMM
1Gb nVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M (8.17.12.5896)
W7x64 | sw-01: 55.92
SolidWorks x64sp4 in PDMWxE