topic Re: printing line weights in Documentation

printing line weights

Anonymous — Fri, 26 May 2023 00:34:22 GMT

Confused in printing BoldCutLines from Layout to Epson. Any help?

Re: printing line weights

TomWaltz — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:10:31 GMT

Confused in lack of detail. Can you tell us more?

Re: printing line weights

Andy Thomson — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:23:12 GMT

I think by bold cutlines you are referring to a display only option - that won't print. Try setting cutlines in your section marker's settings? A wild guess.

Re: printing line weights

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:27:04 GMT

View>OnScreenViewOptions>BoldCutLines

This is the way we would like to print also but the printed result is in 'hairlines'.
What I am looking for is the way to set the printed result to show BoldCutLines. (I am trying to avoid setting pen weights).

Re: printing line weights

Andy Thomson — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:35:19 GMT

andyro wrote:
Try setting cutlines in your section marker's settings...

I love quoting myself 😉

Re: printing line weights

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:26:03 GMT

does this relate to floor plans?

Re: printing line weights

TomWaltz — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:21:55 GMT

constantine wrote:
View>OnScreenViewOptions>BoldCutLines

This is the way we would like to print also but the printed result is in 'hairlines'.
What I am looking for is the way to set the printed result to show BoldCutLines. (I am trying to avoid setting pen weights).

Sorry, pen weights are the only way Archicad has to change the weight that something prints with.

Andy's right that the Section tool lets you modify the pen of cut elements, but it's still based on setting a pen somewhere.

Since the section tool only creates sections, it does not have any effect on plans.

Why are you adverse to using pens for what they are made for?

Re: printing line weights

Anonymous — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:52:21 GMT

...just because the model is created without thinking of pens and we would like to have all drawings printed ..yesterday. Setting the lines and then making sure each element has the correct lines is a job that if not done at the beginning is not easily decided to do afterwards...In addition, I am almost sure than version 9 allowed printing with Bold CutLines if this was the Display setting.
thanks for the help

Re: printing line weights

TomWaltz — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:24:02 GMT

constantine wrote:
...just because the model is created without thinking of pens and we would like to have all drawings printed ..yesterday. Setting the lines and then making sure each element has the correct lines is a job that if not done at the beginning is not easily decided to do afterwards...In addition, I am almost sure than version 9 allowed printing with Bold CutLines if this was the Display setting.
thanks for the help

Sorry, but AC9 did not allow that either.

You do have to think about things like lineweights, line types, layers, and such when working on a model. If not, Find & Select makes it pretty easy to change afterward. Like most things, you can do them now or you can do them later, but if you want decent looking drawings, you have to do them at some time.