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scalable line weights?

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 20:21:11 GMT

hi All,
I looked thru the AC help and also on line, and somewhat mysteriously can't find any leads on this...I usu. model at 1/4"=1'-0" (so it says in the lower left of my AC screen); my fonts size and line weights are set at this scale. When I change that to say, 1/2"=1'-0", the fonts will all change size appropriately, but the line weights stay...the same. I am looking for a way to make the lines print wider the more I increase my scale towards 1:1. What am I missing?
Cheers,
John

Re: scalable line weights?

vfrontiers — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 22:37:12 GMT

What you are missing are SCALABLE LINE WEIGHTS... AC doesn't have them!... I have two workarounds....

1. Print to PDF and reductions and enlargements from READER to printer will scale original lineweights..

2. Create PEN SETS for different scales (very tedius and time consuming)... and apply them to the different drawings in the LAYOUTING side of archicad.

Re: scalable line weights?

Richard Morrison — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 03:23:36 GMT

vfrontiers wrote:
What you are missing are SCALABLE LINE WEIGHTS

Hmmm, wouldn't these actually be NON-scalable lineweights since they don't change dimension? (Not sure...) In any event, I'm not sure that I would want these. I LIKE knowing that the heavy lines in plan I draw at 1/4" are going to have the same lineweights at 1/2", and won't turn into big blobs when I zoom in at 3". I've actually got a program that does this (Chief Architect) and it's a pain to have to set the likely printing scale at every new view when the scale changes.