text thickness during printing

[mekaneck]

When I specify a different thickness of text, how can I get my printed drawing to reflect a change in thickness?


For example: I have two lines of text on a drawing, one says "standard font", and is 0mm thick and 6mm tall.The other says "thicker font", and is 0.7mm thick and 6mm tall. In Pro/E, the "thicker font" appears thicker (as it should). But when I plot out the drawing, the two fonts are identical. No matter what I change the thickness to, it has no effect on the plotted drawing.


Is there a config setting to change this? I have messed around with the pen thickness config options, and I have also messed around with a pen table file, and I can change line thicknesses on my part geometry, but the text thickness is unaffected. The only thing which will affect the thickness of the text is if I change the color (which I don't want to do).


Here's a picture to help explain:





Any suggestions?

 

[mekaneck]

nobody else is having this issue, or just noone knows a solution?

 

[Erik_Gifford]

I've run into a similar issue with line thickness of sketched entities on drawings. In that case, if a pen table file is used and printedline thicknesses controlled that way (object lines thicker than dimension lines etc. ) the "thickness" of a sketched line as assigned via the width option of line style is totally ignored when it is printed. Disabling the use of a pen table file brings back the line style assigned width of the sketched entity, but the rest of the drawing looks like crap because everything is one line thickness. I didn't find a workaround for that.


Specific to your case, we have had similar needs to make certain text appear thicker and accomplish that by changing that specific text to a different font such as filled, font3d or a true type font. This has proven to work quite well. So, my suggestion would be to change the font of the text you want to appear thicker.

 

[mekaneck]

OK, looks like that works. I guess that using a pen table file makes the "thickness" setting invalid for sketched entities and fonts.


I was able to get the line weights different by changing the default config options:


pen1_line_weight 4
pen2_line_weight 1
pen3_line_weight 2
pen4_line_weight 3
pen5_line_weight 2
pen6_line_weight 3
pen7_line_weight 1
pen8_line_weight 4