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When opening AutoCAD dwg (2002 format) some of the lines in colour 7 (white) appear blue and quite thick - with a thickness. Likewise, when the archicad file is exported as a dwg file and opened in autocad, the lines all have thicknesses. Can anyone please shed some light on this - and possible workarounds. Thanks
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Djordje
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mellaycock wrote:
When opening AutoCAD dwg (2002 format) some of the lines in colour 7 (white) appear blue and quite thick - with a thickness.
You are opening the DWG with pen number to pen number conversion rule. Pen No 7 in ArchiCAD is blue.

You also have the Tru Weight on in ArchiCAD. That is why your ine is thick.
mellaycock wrote:
Likewise, when the archicad file is exported as a dwg file and opened in autocad, the lines all have thicknesses. Can anyone please shed some light on this - and possible workarounds.
Switch the True Weight off when saving DWG file.
Djordje



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