topic Re: hairlines in autocad in Collaboration with other software

hairlines in autocad

Anonymous — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:23:40 GMT

Is there a way that when drawings are saved as in autocad format (2005)all lines in the translated drawing are hairlines? I click off true line weight on screen view options, I used all available translators, I searched the forum. But I cant fix this. Please help

Re: hairlines in autocad

Anonymous — Wed, 23 May 2007 14:49:17 GMT

Answering my own question.
1.Open the translated drawing in autocad
2.write the command convertpstyles
3.select all lines, change their properties (command:change)
4.Change their lineweight properties to 0
5. You may have to do these last 2 steps several times to make sure you convert all the lines. (If some are nested in blocks they should be exploded)
I hope theres an easier way

Re: hairlines in autocad

Eduardo Rolon — Wed, 23 May 2007 15:13:36 GMT

On step 3 instead of selecting all lines with the mouse, type ALL and press return this will select all the lines.

Re: hairlines in autocad

Dennis Lee — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:16:41 GMT

I have no problem getting hairlines, and here are my settings.

Re: hairlines in autocad

Anonymous — Wed, 23 May 2007 18:54:37 GMT

EXCELENT! Thank you very much. Its a lot easier this way. Thats what I was looking for!

Re: hairlines in autocad

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:42:43 GMT

Im starting to use archicad 11
In translating drawings to autocad 2005 I cant click on the option "do not export archicad penweights" (It's greyed) to export drawings in hairlines to autocad 2005.
I tried different conversion methods even tried to create a new one without success.
This option worked perfectly on archicad 10. Meanwhile I have to translate back to archicad 10 and then to translate to autocad to export drawings in hairlines. I dont know if this is a bug

Re: hairlines in autocad

TomWaltz — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:48:14 GMT

Do you have "Show True Line Weights" turned on? I've found that Archicad reads that setting regardless of the translator options.

Re: hairlines in autocad

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 14:13:16 GMT

I tried both ways turning off true line weights and turning off bold cut lines. No sucess still. Thanks anyway

Re: hairlines in autocad

Andy Thomson — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:02:52 GMT

No! It WILL work. Turn off the 'display only option' (BS), then the translator radio button becomes available - check it - save your settings, update placed drawings as needed - AC then does not export lineweights to modelspace. Works for me.

Re: hairlines in autocad

Anonymous — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:06:20 GMT

Thanks for replying. I thought the Issue was forgotten. I don't understand your instructions: "Turn off display only option" Could you please clarify?

Re: hairlines in autocad

Andy Thomson — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:27:08 GMT

ALT+6 is the command on a mac - this thing (see screenshot)

It will be somewhere else in your WE - but it is with this group of commands:

Re: hairlines in autocad

Anonymous — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:47:53 GMT

I did this but still it doesnt work. Strangely in my house it works. Ill try to log in as an administrator next tuesday to see if I can activate this button.
In the past some functions will not work if I log in as a user -for example Door & window builder. Ill keep you informed . Thanks for the help.

Re: hairlines in autocad

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:49:51 GMT

Everything works fine on a different file.
Ill try to make a new file and merge the problematic one to it.
Thanks to all. I'm glad it was not a bug

Re: hairlines in autocad

Andy Thomson — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 04:11:34 GMT

Just a general warning about DWB and DWG's - they don't always play nice. Try unloading the plugin and see how that affects things. I believe CI is working on this if they haven't fixed it already.

Re: hairlines in autocad

Kristen — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:18:42 GMT

I have the exact same problem in AC12 now. It worked fine in AC11 but now the "Do not export ArchiCAD penweights" is grey and I cannot choose it. I have tried different combinations and I do not have true line weights on but it is always unclikable. Does anyone know how to activate it?