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UGNX2 printing vs plotting

UGNX2 printing vs plotting

UGNX2 printing vs plotting

(OP)
I have a colleauge that uses print vs plot for simple printing of 8.5x11 shts. I always use plotting. But, when he prints the line widths are printing very bold (fat). Is there a setting in UG for this? In .def file or otherwise?
Or is this just a print defenition?
Thanks in advance if anyone knows.

RE: UGNX2 printing vs plotting

Go into your ugii_env.dat file & add the following line and see if his line thickness gets thinner:

UGII_WMF_LINE_WIDTH_SCALE_FACTOR=.25

Feel free to change the .25 to any number you like.  You will have to exit and restart NX each time you change the .25 variable and save the .dat file.

Other than adding the above, I'm not sure what else might be contributing to this issue.

Hope this helps.

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com

RE: UGNX2 printing vs plotting

(OP)
Thank you,
Is there any particular to add this line?

RE: UGNX2 printing vs plotting

(OP)
Thanks a lot nkwheelguy. That worked great.
I love this forum. Always can get answers.

RE: UGNX2 printing vs plotting

Glad you got it to work out.  It might be of use to keep track of these sorts of things for your next major migration (i.e. NX3 to NX4, etc.).

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com

RE: UGNX2 printing vs plotting

Is there a way to use a sketch in several components, then, modify one sketch and have all the components update?

RE: UGNX2 printing vs plotting

Yes.

You might want to start a separate thread rather than hijacking a Printing thread ;o).

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.
www.enkei.com

RE: UGNX2 printing vs plotting

The other way is to simply make the UG graphics window smaller (just a bit is all that's needed) then print. For some reason there is a bug that causes the big fat lines. That said, changing the scale factor is more accurate.

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Bill

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