topic Re: Hairline Printing in Plotmaker in Documentation

Hairline Printing in Plotmaker

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 16:06:45 GMT

I thought there was a way to get hairline printing output from setting the output to hairlines in Plotmaker. The plotmaker option I find says its a screen only control not a printing control.
I finally managed to get my first cd book together in plotmaker 3 and my sections are hidiously fatlined and unreadable.
Where do I need to fix the problem?

Re: Hairline Printing in Plotmaker

Ben Odonnell — Tue, 04 Nov 2003 07:40:55 GMT

Hari wrote:
I thought there was a way to get hairline printing output from setting the output to hairlines in Plotmaker. The plotmaker option I find says its a screen only control not a printing control.
I finally managed to get my first cd book together in plotmaker 3 and my sections are hidiously fatlined and unreadable.
Where do I need to fix the problem?

Check this out http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/archiguide/print_plot/hairlinethickness.html
It may be the answer you are looking for?

Cheers.
Ben

Re: Hairline Printing in Plotmaker

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 16:04:17 GMT

Ben; As an interested "new member" I clicked on your link and it said it was no longer available. I will try to find a link that works and post it. If you can think of why it doesn't work, let us know.

Re: Hairline Printing in Plotmaker

__archiben — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 16:14:02 GMT

it probably wasn't working because graphisoft have just overhauled their entire archiguide site.

it can now be found at:
http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/archiguide/hairlinethickness.html

~/archiben

Re: Hairline Printing in Plotmaker

aahatimo — Fri, 07 Nov 2003 18:07:39 GMT

~/archiben wrote:
it probably wasn't working because graphisoft have just overhauled their entire archiguide site.
~/archiben

great job graphisoft! archiguide has been a bit stale lately. until yesterday it had not been updated since jan 03. i was wondering why they had a link to it in the upper left hand corner.
yet another great new tool.

Re: Hairline Printing in Plotmaker

Djordje — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:39:10 GMT

"Ben Odonnell wrote:
Check this out http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/archiguide/print_plot/hairlinethickness.htmlIt may be the answer you are looking for?

The right link is http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/archiguide/hairlinethickness.html

The ArchiGuide is completely rehauled, so please update your favourites!

Re: Hairline Printing in Plotmaker

Conrado Dominguez — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 18:42:35 GMT

Hari:

You need to control the thickness of your lines inside Archicad.
The attributes manager is the best place to do it. You can set the lines to pt. (points) or mm (milimeters).
Make a simple drawing with your lines and plot the drawing.
Make any adjustment of the thickness and plot again until you are satisfied.
These should avoid your "fat" lines.

For hairlines inside Plotmaker, the only way I know is to go to OPTIONS, ALL PENS AND COLORS and tediously, change the thickness of each line used in the drawing.

Conrado