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Plot Thickness By Colour

Plot Thickness By Colour

Plot Thickness By Colour

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Hi,

I am working with a program of work to migrate an office from an old cad system to NX6,

The previous method of plotting was to utilise colour to differentiate between different line thicknesses, e.g. geometry in a view was colour blah, dimensions were colour blah and so on.

Although NX can do this, I have something in the back of my mind that this is quite a old method which can be fraught with problems (users changing colours etc, colour definition file changes between revisions of NX etc) and the more modern / robust method is to use the line weights 'thickness' directly from the entities as they appear in the NX part.

I have no objection to the different colours, it just the robustness of the plotting solution.

Any opinions or experiences, good or bad?

Cheers,

Nxj
 

RE: Plot Thickness By Colour

The primary reason most people opted to use color to control plotted line 'thickness/width' was due to the fact that NX only supports 3 line widths.  So if you don't need anything more granular than 3 different widths, I'd stick to using that scheme.  Of course, if you really do need more than 3 simultaneous plotted line widths, then at the moment, this is your only real option.  But beware, the items which you're mentioned can become an issue so keep that in mind.

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