Print Line Weights

Hi,

When I print out SW2006 drawings to my HP Designjet 450C, the lines are
all the same thickness regardless of my settings in the print dialog
box. The lines all show the same thickness when I do a print preview.
Has anyone here experienced the same difficulties?

Thanks,

Rob

 

Have you set thicknesses at Tools, Options, Doc Props, Line Font?

 

Rob,

Matt is correct by first looking at Doc props/line font settings.
There are also toolbars for layers and line format, which I have found
useful to set non-default line wt thicknesses for borders and title box
geo (edit sheet format mode). I use the same ancient HP designjet
450C as you (I thought I had last working one). One item on my SWx
drawing wish list is to be able to set a thicker line wt boundry of
part views in a drawing. Something I could do in Acad via a lisp
routine and a custom plot style table (pen assignments). It gave a
nice look to my drawings.

Good luck

Harry

 

Yes sir, line weights are all set in document properties. I am going
to try a new driver for my plotter and see if it solves the problem.
It looks like the same problem in SW2007.

Cheers,

Rob

 

At my last company every single drawing was created using a D-size
template and usually printed on B-size paper. This was because the boss
liked the relative size of the title block size. It also made it easier
in terms of standardization and consistency. However I found that
because the drawing was essentially being shrunk to fit the smaller
paper, any changes to the line weight had a diminished effect. For
example if I increase the line width by .002" it wasn't visible on the
B-size printer at 600dpi (.0017" dot) because .002" in my D size dwg
came out to .001" on the B-size printout. However, since the printer
could only resolve lines in increments of .0017", this .001" increase
in line width made no difference in the actual printout. I ended up
just fiddling with line weights for a while until the printouts came
out to my boss' liking. I then ported the new settings from pc to pc
(using either a .reg file or the save settings wizard).

-Mahir