Line thickness

[Eric Milberger]

And if it is my high res screens let me know.

I am having a hard time with the line weights you cannot see.  I come from another platform that is wysiwyg.

Not a great program but that helped with detailing

I feel like I am guessing because I really don’t see a good interpretation on what I am getting until I go to PDF.

Are there any thoughts from others As UI largely just want black lines with thickness.  For me colors would typically guidelines so that they dont stand out against the drawing.

[Lee Hankins]

Have you tried turning on True Line Weight in display options?

[Eric Milberger]

Does to work very well - I king of end up with thin line and very thick line.  and as you scale it does not do the same.

[Erwin Edel]

Colours for lineweight is a matter of pen sets.

You can assign a different pen set to your placed drawings on layouts (for black lines) and use one with colour coding for your saved views.

I worked like this for many years. Red = 0.18, black = 0.25, green = 0.35 etc etc

So if your template only has a black pens pen set, you can duplicate this and modify the pens to have colours you are used to from your other software.

[Eric Milberger]

But that is still guessing.  It is not WYSIWYG.

This is even bigger with a higher resolution screen

I tried a lower res screen that is collecting dust and the  ability to see thickness is a little better but on Hi res harder.

It will take some time to get intuitive enough for the best drawings.  They need to equal what I do by hand.   Started that way.  

[Eric Milberger]

I only need black with a few colors - that is all fine

The problem is that when I set up 10 black pens with 10 different line weights - the pens just don't show a gradual change from one to another.

[Barry Kelly]

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@Eric Milberger wrote:

The problem is that when I set up 10 black pens with 10 different line weights - the pens just don't show a gradual change from one to another.

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I don't understand what you mean.

The pen thicknesses are exactly as you set them.

So they can be what ever you want.

Barry.

[Eric Milberger]

When I open up on. My high resolution screen my lines look all very thin.  I dont see this clean variation anywhere

Doing this for 40+ years and I probably have 10 weights that I am used to seeing all black as I want it to look like the plot.  And then a few colors for special things

Wt is what matters as B&W is what you see in the field and on a plot

[Barry Kelly]

Personally I can't stand working on screen with true line weight turned on.

I work in hairline with coloured pens.

I know each colour represents a particular line thickness - a bit like the colours of the old Rotring ink pens.

Then when I place the drawings on a layout, I set them to use a black & white pen set (it does have a few coloured pens as well).

Each coloured pen I used on screen is the same pen thickness, but now black instead of colour.

So I have the best of both worlds.

I can easily model in plan in hairline, but print in black & white with true line weight.

I would like to see a screen shot of some sample lines that you see on screen with true line weight on, and what the weight (thickness) of each of those lines is.

Barry.

[Eric Milberger]

And I don't like it when the screen does not look like the drawings.

Just need a representation and not a guess