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Line weight auto adjustment... does it exist?

Line weight auto adjustment... does it exist?

Line weight auto adjustment... does it exist?

(OP)
We have A,B,C,D size prints.  A common practice for us is to take a big D-size drawing (slddrw) and quickly print a B-size hard copy to markup.  The problem is that the line weights seem to stay the same size we would want on a D-size, which is huge and blobby on a B-size.  Things that should have finer detail like threads are now a big black blob.

What I'm looking for is a way to plot D-size drawings to A and B-size and have the line weights auto adjust to a finer size so we don't end up with black blobs.  I'm surprised this isn't a simple checkbox somewhere in the system options, document properties, or printer/plotter options.

Any guidance is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jack

Jack Lapham, CSWP
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RE: Line weight auto adjustment... does it exist?

Save as TIF using the print capture option, specifying a D-size print.  Print the TIF on a B size using Irfanview, Picture & Fax Viewer, etc.

Or do the same with PDF.

That's what comes to mind immediately.  I don't remember any option for "scale lineweights" or similar, but there may be one.

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

RE: Line weight auto adjustment... does it exist?

(OP)
I did that method using PDF as an intermediate file type and it looks a little better.  I really wish there was a setting for this... it seems like the obvious choice if you were to take a native D-size and print it down to A, you would want everything including line weights to scale down.  Hmmm....



Jack Lapham, CSWP
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Dell M6400 Covet (24 Season 8, Ep 22)
Intel Core 2 Duo T9800, 2.93GHz, 1066MHZ 6M L2 Cache
8.0GB, DDR3-1066 SDRAM, 2 DIMM
1Gb nVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M (8.17.12.5896)
W7x64 | sw-01: 55.92
SolidWorks x64sp4 in PDMWxE

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