Scaling Pen Weights for Layouts

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2017-09-16
03:19 AM
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Gordana Radonic
Or the other way around - perhaps a 1/4" scale drawing/view that we want to display in Layout as 1"=1'-0" with line widths correct at that scale.
Do we still have to make a special pen sets for that?
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2017-09-17 04:48 PM
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2017-09-18 03:28 AM
So each view will have a different scale setting, maybe different layer combination (if you want annotation to suit each scale), maybe different MVO and GO combinations, and it is here you can set a different pen set that adjusts the pen thicknesses suitable for each scale.
Each view will have exactly the settings you want for that particular view.
So yes different pen sets are the way to go still.
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2017-09-18 05:31 AM
In a pinch, I do some things with the .pdfs to take care of this. It seems to me like it would not be that difficult to add some code for that to the program. It would scale the all the pen sizes in a drawing relative to the originally used pen sizes it was made with.
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2017-09-18 10:53 PM
Steve wrote:I'm not totally clear on how you want pen weights to scale. If you shrink a 1/4" plan down to 1/8", are you wanting the line weights to be 1/2 size, too? (As if you reduced a PDF.) Or are you wanting the weights to essentially stay the same visually, regardless of scale? There is the issue of text sizes, too. Not sure what your intent is there.
It would scale the all the pen sizes in a drawing relative to the originally used pen sizes it was made with.
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2017-09-18 11:03 PM
I hate making these little drawings because it take so much work to show only what is wanted for the meetings. It will work for what its for I guess.
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2017-09-18 11:22 PM
1. Publish the particular drawings to PDF.
2. Place the PDF in Layout Book
3. Edit Placed PDF to be 50%
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Since the line weights are already "baked in" when you change the scale they will automatically change.
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2017-09-18 11:34 PM
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