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Standard Line Weights

Standard Line Weights

Standard Line Weights

(OP)
I have searched the forum to no avail. I am looking for, if it even exist, a standard line weight.

What I mean is what is a red line set to, what is a yellow line set to, what is a black line set to and so on.

At a previous job we had these things set, but I don't know if it is a standard or not.

Thank you for your help in advance

B. Long
Dell Precision 380
P 4 2.80 GHz
2.5 Gig Ram
Solidworks Office 2007 Sp. 2.2
AutoCAD 2005

RE: Standard Line Weights

There is no set coloring scheme for these things. I believe the Architectural disciplines have a generally accepted set of "rules" but not mechanical. Anyway, I think the industry s moving away from color based setup and more to line and lineweight based setups. That is why AutoCAD has color based plotstyles and named based plotstyles to define how drawings are output. I could give you the AutoCAD Mechanical standard lines and settings if you want but these are only true for AutoCAD Mechanical and MDT users I believe.

http://mechcad-insider.blogspot.com/
 
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom"

RE: Standard Line Weights

(OP)
I mostly us Solidworks. I am using vanilla AutoCAD 2005 for most of my 2D plots since Solidworks is lacking in the plotting area.

I am only doing machanical drawings.

B. Long
Dell Precision 380
P 4 2.80 GHz
2.5 Gig Ram
Solidworks Office 2007 Sp. 2.2
AutoCAD 2005

RE: Standard Line Weights

Heres the sample (i hope it formats ok)

03 Layer Structure
--------------------------------------------------------------------
LAYER        COLOR    COLOR#    LINETYPE        REMARK
--------------------------------------------------------------------
AM_0        white     7        Continuous        visible edges 1st choice
AM_1        brown    14        Continuous        visible edges 2nd choice
AM_2        blue    5        Continuous        visible edges 3rd choice
AM_3        magenta    6        AM_ISO2W050        hidden lines
AM_5        green    3        Continuous        dimensions / leaders
AM_6        yellow    2        Continuous        text / notes
AM_7        cyan    4        AM_ISO8W050        centerlines
AM_8        red        1        Continuous        cross-hatching
AM_11        red        1        AM_ISO9W050        phantom
AM_BOR        white    7        Continuous        titles and borders
AM_VIEWS    red        1        Continuous        viewports
PART        red        1        AM_ISO9W050        customer parts
---------------------------------------------------------------------
The layers AM_0,AM_1, & AM_2 are three solid line layers to help differentiate parts from each other. Any one of them can be used to show the solid lines of different parts.

http://mechcad-insider.blogspot.com/
 
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom"

RE: Standard Line Weights

By default, lineweights are all equal set at 0.25mm or 0.010", you then set a different lineweight based on your preference, what I do, which may not necessarily be the best way, is pick a color and set the lineweight for that color in Pen Settings.  Good luck

RE: Standard Line Weights

(OP)
What I was wanting was to set curtain colors to curtain lineweights. So as when plotting in mono curtain lines would show up heavier and curtain lines would show up lighter.
I had a guy from my old job email me the .ctb files yesterday.
Just happens my last job was doing civil engineering.

Thank you for the post.

B. Long
Dell Precision 380
P 4 2.80 GHz
2.5 Gig Ram
Solidworks Office 2007 Sp. 2.2
AutoCAD 2005

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