Line Thickness in a Drawing
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Thanks David,
In this instance "Help" was no help.
I don't need to produce drawings often - mostly generating DXF files for laser cutting - I leave the generation of drawings to my contractors.
In this instance I was annotating JPGs in the Drawing module and export them as JPGs - I found it hard to believe that I couldn't change the line thickness!
In this instance "Help" was no help.
I don't need to produce drawings often - mostly generating DXF files for laser cutting - I leave the generation of drawings to my contractors.
In this instance I was annotating JPGs in the Drawing module and export them as JPGs - I found it hard to believe that I couldn't change the line thickness!
It took me a long time to realise what was going on the first time I tried altering line weight and it didn't seem to work.
There have been discussions on this here previously - If I read them rightly line weight has previously been 'WYSIWYG', but that created other issues (though I'm not sure what those issues were).
There have been discussions on this here previously - If I read them rightly line weight has previously been 'WYSIWYG', but that created other issues (though I'm not sure what those issues were).
I have just had a similar problem with an AutoCAD drawing. There is a switch to turn line weights on / off and a variable for controllong model display width. If line weight is on, the paper view shows WYSIWYG. Personally, I would much prefer to see correct line widths displayed in drawing workspace.
Lew_Merrick
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I too have been fighting this issue. Alibre technical support tells me that the Weight values in the layer set-up table is UNITLESS and that you have to just play with it until it shows up correctly in a print-out. Does anyone else find this a truly annoying circumstance?
ASP said:
I agree completely. Every new release I'm hoping for significant improvements in the drawing space; every new release I'm left disappointed. Almost all real manufacturing work still requires printed drawings, and probably always will, I wonder if Alibre realizes how much business they lose due to the lack of functionality and flexibility in the 2d module. Oh well, maybe in the next release...
Lew_Merrick
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The thing that has been lost in the mad dash to 3D (not, mind you, that I am denigrating 3D) is that drawings are schematic representations of a design. A model needs to be 100% accurate, but a drawing needs to read clearly. This means that out-of-scale view are often needed. Trying to see (say) a .002 inch "step" in a part on a drawing will not happen -- yet everybody in the combined 3D/2D world seems to forget this.
However, as someone who started drafting with a ruling pen on linen, a clean, well constructed drawing is still the means by which the designer communicates his intent to the shop.
However, as someone who started drafting with a ruling pen on linen, a clean, well constructed drawing is still the means by which the designer communicates his intent to the shop.