×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Problem with drawing printouts

Problem with drawing printouts

Problem with drawing printouts

(OP)
   My drawing contains a number of lines with different thicknesses(weights) but when i print it out i am getting lines with same thickness (Its making thicker lines to thinner). Is there any setting in solidworks options to get thicker lines in printouts (either hard copy or pdf file). It doesn't even show thicker lines in print preview too. Any idea whats going wrong here?

thanks,

nodaldof

RE: Problem with drawing printouts

Go to File->Print.  Click the button labeled "Line Weights..." and enter different widths in the box for your different lineweights.

RE: Problem with drawing printouts

(OP)
handleman, thanks for your reply. I tried that but its not working. May be some problem with printer or my solidworks installation (v2006).

nodal

RE: Problem with drawing printouts

How are you creating the thicker lines in the drawing?

Do you have the correct line thicknesses set in Tools > Options > Document Properties > Line Font?

bdaycandle   cheers   bdaycandle

RE: Problem with drawing printouts

(OP)
I am using layers with different properties for line thicknesses and formats (dashed, solid etc).

RE: Problem with drawing printouts

(OP)
Just FYI. I have created this drawing independently. Not from a Part or assembly. So i have to specify properties for varous lines seperately (since document properties like hidden line edges, etc) are not applicable here.

RE: Problem with drawing printouts

Do regular drawings (views of models) show line weights correctly?

Have you tried updating the printer drivers?

bdaycandle   cheers   bdaycandle

RE: Problem with drawing printouts

(OP)
The drawings show line weights correctly. However the print preview and printouts shows all lines with same thickness. I am printing on my office network printer. Not sure if its a problem with driver.

RE: Problem with drawing printouts

(OP)
CBL thanks for your suggestion. I have created a sample drawing to upload and i found out that its printing well on my printer. so there must me something i am messing it up in my previous drawing. I will try to figure it out if not i will post it.

Thanks for your help.

Nodal
 

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources