Plot Thickness By Colour
Plot Thickness By Colour
(OP)
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
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





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