Change edge thickness in .drw

[Ricca]

I've beenworking with ProE 2001 fora long and I've never been able to change the solid edge thickness in the .drw: even if it isn't a problem when using a monitor this obligesme tosave it as a .dwgin order tochange line styles in other programs if I want to print it on sheets.It has never been a problem but now I have to create more than 300different .drw and print them as .pdf, so I really need toeliminate this useless phase.


I' ve tried to change pratically all the settings in the Draw Setup and any other things that seemed linked to this but I've never founda waydifferent from making a snapshot and so losing all the model information

. Plese help me.


Thank you in advantage for your help.


Riccardo Vitaletti

 

[dr_gallup]

Plotted line thickness is controlled by color and the pen table file. Something like this, which I've used for about the last 10 years without change:

!Pro/E geometry lines are white on the screen, plot with broad pen #2 (0.250mm)
!
pen 2 thickness .025 cm; drawing_color attention_color
!
!Everything else plots with fine pen #1 (0.125mm)
!
pen 1 thickness .0125 cm; half_tone_color
pen 3 thickness .0125 cm; dimmed_color
pen 4 thickness .0125 cm; edge_highlite_color
pen 5 thickness .0125 cm; letter_color
pen 6 thickness .0125 cm; highlite_color
pen 7 thickness .0125 cm; magenta_color
pen 8 thickness .0125 cm; section_color

 

[Israr]

dr_gallup,


The one you have given is pen table file. I think the options


pen1_line_weight to pen8_line_weight have effect as well.


btw whats the difference between the two.


Israr

 

[Zaki]

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Dear Dr


Just tell me how to use pen table file with printing

 

[Israr]

Zaki,


Add the following option to your config.pro file.


pen_table_file specified path


Israr

 

[robertib]

dr_gallup,


The one you have given is pen table file. I think the options


pen1_line_weight to pen8_line_weight have effect as well.


btw whats the difference between the two.


Israr

The main difference between the 2 is that the config options only allow whole numbers (ie 1, 2, etc), while the pen table allows decimal numbers as well as the ability to change the colour & type of line (hatch, text, hidden, etc) set to each pen.

 

[Israr]

Thanks Robertib for your info.


Israr

 

[Dell_Boy]

A problem with assigning pen thicknesses to colours in the pen table is that eveything
that colour is plotted in the same thickness so if you have text in
large and small sizes it all gets plotted in the same thickness



By default



line_weight 1 = 0.005"

line_weight 2 = 0.010"

......

line_weight 8 = 0.040"





the default weights are 4,1,2,3,2,3,1,4 though I change these
4,2,2,3,4,2,2,4 which I find to be good for general plotting and I
deliberately don't specify thickness in the pen table however I do
change the colour of the hidden and tangency lines to



pen 3 color 0.3 0.3 0.3; half_tone_color



so they plot in grey rather than black.





BUT if I am doing a big
assembly drawing as a pdf I run a map key that moves all the default
line weights down by 1 which maintains greater clarity by helping to
prevent lines merging into a black blob.





DB







Edited by: Dell_Boy

 

[Ricca]

Wow, you're mysaviours, and you answered so quickly... thank you all very much

 

[freewalker]

thanks a lot