topic Re: Elevation line weights in Modeling

Elevation line weights

Stephen Dolbee — Tue, 23 May 2023 13:27:47 GMT

Our elevations are printing with everything the same line weight. In AC9 and earlier we could vary the line weights (roof one thickness, walls another). Is there a setting am missing? In section/elevations settings the "uniform color for uncut elements" is unchecked. (We print in black and white). Any ideas?

Thanks,
Steve

Re: Elevation line weights

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:55:09 GMT

A couple of things come to mind...

You may have a distant area set which includes everything you can see. Otherwise they should display and print in the same pens as they are in the 3D views.

It is also possible that you have a strange pen set assigned to the views in which all the pens are the same weight. This seems highly unlikely since it would require creating the pen set and assigning it without realizing that you are doing it.

Re: Elevation line weights

Stephen Dolbee — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:34:16 GMT

Thanks for responding, Matthew. I finally figured it out. It was several materials settings. Apparently, in AC9 all of the materials pens were set to "element pen". Some in AC10 are set to a different pen, and I just happened to use several that were set to approx. the same line width. I didn't even realize that vectorial fills could be a different pen-a feature I will begin to use.