Line thicknesses...

Hi all...i've been trying to print a drawing with my own plot style but it seems to always print out drawings with 0.1 lines (or magenta) in my case. I can't seem to get the drawing printed out with different line thicknesses. Please help...

Thanks

You can assign "lineweight" to a plain old line in the Layer Properties Manager.

You can assign a "width" to a polyline.

You can plot lines in various thicknesses by editing your CTB or STB plot style file.

Check the properties dialogie of your lines if you haven't already and where it says thickness make sure it's set to the thickness that you require.

Yeah...i gather that. But we have colours assigned to lineweights and usually we just select the "plot style" and the colours print out the way they should. But not with this drawing...it all seems to b printed out thinly for some strange reason.

Check to see what you are using - a ctb or an stb. If it is a ctb check what line weights are assigned in the plot style.

From the help file below. Also check your plot options to see if plot object lineweights is selected.

Plot Styles

A plot style controls how an object or layer is plotted by determining plotted properties such as lineweight, color, and fill style. Plot style tables collect groups of plot styles. The Plot Style Manager is a window that shows all the plot style tables available.

There are two plot style types: color-dependent and named. A drawing can use only one type of plot style table. You can convert a plot style table from one type to the other. You can also change the type of plot style table a drawing uses once it has been set.

For color-dependent plot style tables, an object's color determines how it is plotted. These plot style table files have .ctb extensions. You cannot assign color-dependent plot styles directly to objects. Instead, to control how an object is plotted, you change its color. For example, all objects assigned the color red in a drawing are plotted the same way.

Named plot style tables use plot styles that are assigned directly to objects and layers. These plot style table files have .stb extensions. Using them enables each object in a drawing to be plotted differently, independent of its color.

Cheers for the help guys....turns out the plot settings was set to print "Scale to Fit" instead of 1 to 1 and also the "scale lineweights" had not been selected. Thanks for ur help tho...