topic Re: Fat lines when reducing scale drawings in Documentation

Fat lines when reducing scale drawings

Anonymous — Fri, 26 May 2023 00:31:59 GMT

Once a drawing is complete, is there a way to make it print all hairline if it's used in another layout at a MUCH smaller scale? i.e: using a large scale site plan on a full size sheet, then using the same drawing on another layout as a MUCH reduced key plan.

If walls, property lines, etc., cannot be made to print as hairline (or better yet, it they were scaleable), these lines become blurred together in their own fat. Any solutions?

Re: Fat lines when reducing scale drawings

Link — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:40:36 GMT

An effective solution is to assign unique pen sets to each scale of drawing. Just make all pens thinner for the smaller scales.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Fat lines when reducing scale drawings

Laura Yanoviak — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:48:02 GMT

Patrick wrote:
Once a drawing is complete, is there a way to make it print all hairline if it's used in another layout at a MUCH smaller scale?

Create a Pen Set with all pen weight values set to 0 (zero) and assign the smaller Drawing this Pen Set.

Re: Fat lines when reducing scale drawings

Karl Ottenstein — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:55:57 GMT

What Link and Laura said - use pen sets for different scales.

Laura wrote:
Create a Pen Set with all pen weight values set to 0 (zero) and assign the smaller Drawing this Pen Set.

Only caveat I would add here is something mentioned a couple of years ago on these forums - not sure by whom, Duane Valencia, David Larrew, Eric Batte??? Someone back then reported that they had a new fancy laser wide format printer that printed at 1200 dpi (or higher?) and that if they used a pen width of zero, the line was so thin that when someone tried to make copies of the drawings, those lines would not reproduce.

Karl