Object Line Thickness

[jaybat12]

What's the best way to change the default object line thickness for drawings?

 

[dr_gallup]

Pen table files.

 

[rusty409]

It depends on how you are creating your prints. Pro engineer controls line weights by color during printing. There are 8 pen settings with the following assignment:

White Entities pen 1; drawing_color
Yellow Entities pen 2; letter_color
Gray Entities pen 3; half_tone_color
Red Entities pen 4; highlite_color
Green Entities pen 5; attention_color
Cyan Entities pen 6; section_color
Gray Entities pen 7; dimmed_color
Blue Entities pen 8; edge_highlite_color

To take advantage of this, you need to set up your config.pro to use the pen table and create a pen table to control the line weights. The pen table needs the following (these are my settings):

pen 1 thickness 0.010 in
pen 2 thickness 0.002 in
pen 3 thickness 0.002 in
pen 4 thickness 0.002 in
pen 5 thickness 0.002 in
pen 6 thickness 0.002 in
pen 7 thickness 0.002 in
pen 8 thickness 0.002 in

In this case, the object lines will print thicker than the rest of the lines. Remember, if you use custom colors, this will not work.
How you print will determine how you set up your config.pro file. Check out the thread http://www.mcadcentral.com/proe/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=35 604

 

[davisdony]

I think other than table file there is pen weight factor in tools options

hope u can control in that also