topic Re: True Line Weights? in Modeling

True Line Weights?

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:52:27 GMT

Hi all,

I have 2 different lines with different line weights, I also have "true line weights" turned on and they still look hairline thin. Funny thing is, the line weights only show when I go to plot it. Any ideas?

Cheers,

Matts

Re: True Line Weights?

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:33:27 GMT

Display Option is not set to true weight.

Re: True Line Weights?

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:54:34 GMT

Thanks for the response Karl

So this is separate from the "View>On-Screen View Options>True Line Weight" option?

Matts

Re: True Line Weights?

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:17:01 GMT

Just to add to that, there are no line weights period. In the viewport, or in the final layout pdf file... all line weights are the same. I do enable the "true line weight" option but it has no effect. ( I am using ArchiCAD 12)

Thanks again,

Matts

Re: True Line Weights?

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 05:54:50 GMT

WOW... for a second there I thought this was a BUG. I tried everything... and I found out that the line weights ARE WORKING. It's just that I need to zoom in ALOT to notice the change in line weight. How can I fix that? How can I make it noticable at regular zoom... I mean that's the whole point right? To notice it in the viewport

Cheers!

Matts

Re: True Line Weights?

Thomas Holm — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:50:36 GMT

mattsvai wrote:
WOW... for a second there I thought this was a BUG. I tried everything... and I found out that the line weights ARE WORKING. It's just that I need to zoom in ALOT to notice the change in line weight. How can I fix that? How can I make it noticable at regular zoom... I mean that's the whole point right? To notice it in the viewport

Try a smaller scale. (Such as 1:500 instead of 1:50)

But the whole point is really to make a credible impression at final printout.

Re: True Line Weights?

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:51:16 GMT

Thomas wrote:

But the whole point is really to make a credible impression at final printout.

Well yes & no. Output maybe primary, but what you see on the screen is the way you check that prior to output. Coming from Microstation to ArchiCAD this was (and still is) one of my biggest adjustments. Microstation has a control that allows adjustment of the relative thickness of the true weight line on the screen to make it more visible when zoomed out. It would be nice if AC had this.

Dave

Re: True Line Weights?

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:14:59 GMT

Thanks Thomas, that did the trick. I agree with u Dave, it would be nice if we could control the line weight thickness according to zoom. Sometimes I don't want to be zoomed in at 500% to get an overall picture of the line weights used.

Cheers,

Matts

Re: True Line Weights?

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:44:28 GMT

A big frustration for me too.
Zooming to 500% is ridiculous to see OVERALL effect.

Re: True Line Weights?

Karl Ottenstein — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:49:59 GMT

If you are using a different pen set for display than for printing (which you generally should), then just beef up the pen weights in your on-screen pen set as required for your visual satisfaction.

Cheers,
Karl

Re: True Line Weights?

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 22:16:09 GMT

Karl wrote:
If you are using a different pen set for display than for printing (which you generally should), then just beef up the pen weights in your on-screen pen set as required for your visual satisfaction.

Cheers,
Karl

This would serve to a point, but what I think he is looking for is a function that would exaggerate the lineweights in inverse proportion to the zoom. Personally I prefer to just zoom in to check here and there and trust the standards to produce the desired output.

Re: True Line Weights?

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:00:10 GMT

Thanks for the tip Karl, I didn't know u could use different pen sets for screen and print. I will look into that. Great advice guys thanks alot!

Cheers,

Matts