Setting line weight and type for print

[tinKing]

Hi All,

 

I'm doing some building drawings for Uni using AutoCAD 2010 and as I'm new needed some advice about the best way (and process) to set line weights and types (dash, dot) for printing. What I’m currently doing doesn’t seem to be working and seems a bit inefficient.

 

The way I am doing it at the moment is that I have put all the various drawing elements on different layers with varying colours. I am then going through each layer in the layers dialog box and setting the line weight and line type as required.When in paper space or plotted the lines all come out solid/continuous and with same weight. (Note: I have used LTSCALE so that the dashes are viewable in model space). So here are the questions:

 

• Does the line weight and line type you set in the layer properties equal what should be printed? At the moment it does not for me.
  
• It is best to create all your layers and individually edit each layer for line weight and type, or is there a quicker way to assign line properties? I think I read that you could assign different properties to colours, but not sure what this means.
  

It might be that I need to make my working process more efficient so if it’s a bit much to explain and you know of a tutorial (could not find one on CADtutor) it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

JK

 

UPDATE: Have tried setting PSLTSCALE to 1 and 0, does not seem to help.

Edited April 19, 2011 by tinKing

[mateen]

use psltscale command and set to 0 and than apply rea command remember this procedure will be on paper space..................