Line Weight in Paper Space
Line Weight in Paper Space
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[Using AutoCAD 2006] I've got a project where I need line weight differentiation. In Model space the lines all appear just the way I want them to. In Paper Space all lines are one pixel wide. I've been all through eng-tips search, through AutoDesk's FAQ's, knowledge base, and their forums with no help. They keep saying I need to click the LWT icon (but no indication of what it looks like) or use the LWEIGHT command with the "On" parameter. By the way, that does nothing. I've tried Page Setup Manager, Plotter Manager, and Plotter Style Manager and the lines in paper space are still one pixel wide.
I'm about to move my title blocks, dimensions, and annotations into model space, but I thought maybe someone had solved this and I'm just missing a stupid check box somewhere un-intuitive (to me).
David
I'm about to move my title blocks, dimensions, and annotations into model space, but I thought maybe someone had solved this and I'm just missing a stupid check box somewhere un-intuitive (to me).
David





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"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers
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David
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"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers
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"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers
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The "plot preview" of the paper space looks just like the plot to paper--the lines are a single pixel wide. I just noticed that the lwt button in Model Space makes the lines wide or narrow, but it does nothing in Paper Space.
I saw both of those knowledge base articles yesterday and neither of them solve my problem. I've redrawn rectangles as a series of polylines that show up thick in model space and thin in paper space.
I also created a new blank layout without any title blocks or other artificats that I created and the lines still show up as 1 pixel.
David
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David
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Sorry for the confusion.
David
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I don't have Autocad installed on the machine I'm working on so this is going by memory...
Somewhere there is a box that you can check or uncheck that is called something like "use paperspace lineweights" or "display paperspace lineweights" or something to that effect - it's either on the pulldown where all the linetypes installed are shown (edit linetypes?) or on the Layer manager.
It effectively toggles the layers either as you said so the lineweights display correctly in modelspace but not paperspace, or correctly in paperspace and not modelspace.
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This whole process is really ugly. In model space my line weights are so thick that there is no detail. In paper space the same lines show us as slightly thicker than normal. When I create a .pdf the lines look thin. When I convert that to .jpg (to include the drawing in an Access Database), most of the lines just disappear. I've tried a dozen different ways to create the .jpg (the AutoCAD jpgout command it by far the worst), and found an add-in for Acrobat that gives the best results and they still suck.
When I draw the simpler sites in FreeHand everything is so easy, in AutoCAD it is just stupid (but FreeHand doesn't do dimensioning as well).
David