line thickness

[satish]

Dear friends, How to control the line thickness in drawing. Here i am changed the pen value in my configuration file also. But when i take the print the thickness of the print is very dark and thick. Before it was ok 2 days back i had updated the last version of proe 2001. I am having the same dtl file and activated. (How to control the line thickness) from satish kumar. (sharjah uae)

 

[MBuchholtz]

What version are you running? Are you printing in postscript?

 

[DanD]

Use the pen_table_file option in config. Specify the path of the file (don't forget the extension, like C:\proj\table.pnt). Then, in that point have a file called table.pnt that might look like this:



----------------------------------------------------------------

! This is a pen table file. See Interface Guide under pen mapping.

!use for plotters



! Pen 1 = white entities (object lines)

! Pen 2 = yellow entities (text, dimensions, cross hatching)

! Pen 3 = gray entities (hidden lines)

! Pen 4 = red entities (can use for drawing border if you change the

! entity color to red in the format file)

! Pen 5 = green entities (sheetmetal)

! Pen 6 = cyan entities (section)

! Pen 7 = dark gray entities (dimmed)

! Pen 8 = blue entities (spline surface grid)









pen 1 thickness 0.009 in

PEN 2 THICKNESS 0.003 IN

PEN 3 thickness 0.003 in

pen 4 thickness 0.005 in

pen 5 thickness 0.010 in

pen 6 thickness 0.010 in

pen 7 thickness 0.002 in

pen 8 thickness 0.005 in



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Be aware of the units and again, extension. This works if you are printing in ps (Ad, too.



Dan

 

[proed]

Hi

You can use the pen settings in your config.pro, for example:

pen1_line_weight 3

pen2_line_weight 1

...etc...



BTW, here are some of the common pen assignments:

1 - geometry, curves

2 - dims, leaders, axes, etc

3 - hidden lines

5 - sheetmetal color