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About model and data exchange with 3rd party solutions: Revit, Solibri, dRofus, Bluebeam, structural analysis solutions, and IFC, BCF and DXF/DWG-based exchange, etc.

Pen Conversion...

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I have a plotmaker layout book that has drawings in it that have various different pen thicknesses... When I publish to DWG and send it to a collegue using AutoCad 2000.... he sees much thicker lines.

I know almost nothing about Autocad, he knows nothing about ArchiCAD..

Can anyone point me to a resource that would help me sort this out... Im sure I just need to make translator changes...


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Plotmaker 3.1 to Autocad 2000
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Ben Odonnell
Contributor
Nefarious,
If you simply change your line thickness, from true weight -----> Hairlines, under your display options in Plotmaker, it will give you hairlines even in AutoCAD.

See attached image.
HTH.
Cheers.
Ben
Ben O'Donnell
Architect and CTO at BIMobject®
Get your BIM objects from bimobject.com
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I know about that one, but I have a few pens I want to be slightly thicker than hairlines.

any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Nefarious wrote:
I know about that one, but I have a few pens I want to be slightly thicker than hairlines.
Always send hairlines to an AutoCAD user. Otherwise he ends up with a mess (difficult to edit polylines). Set up a protocal so he knows which pens need to have different weights and let him set up the weights himself.

woodster