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July 24, 2015
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How can I control the spacing of dashes in phantom, centerline, hidden, and similar lines when exporting a PDF?

  • July 24, 2015
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How can I control the spacing of dashes in phantom, centerline, hidden, and similar lines when exporting a PDF? Currently, the spacing is so wide that some non-solid lines look solid in the PDF. I am running Creo 2.0.


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Best answer by MartinHanak

Mike,

I realized that I used Creo Parametric 2.0 M160 when I created my video. In this version the option line_style_standard CTRLFONT number works well.

Then I tested Creo Parametric 2.0 M070. In this version the option line_style_standard CTRLFONT number does not work! It looks like your Creo Parametric 2.0 M120 has the same problem as M070.

Then I made some investigation and carefully read Axis Display Options  help page. You can find there the following sentence:

Axes that are set to CTRLFONT actually are shown as CTRLFONT_S_L or CTRLFONT_L_L, depending on their orientation.


So I went back to M070 and tried ... line_style_standard CTRLFONT_L_L number ... and it worked!

Please test line_style_standard CTRLFONT_L_L number and let me know .

Martin Hanak

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Mahesh_Sharma
Mahesh_Sharma22-Sapphire I
22-Sapphire I
July 24, 2015

Mike,

You may try creating pen table and use that for PDF export using config option pdf_use_pentable as yes.

Document for pen table file is available at http://support.ptc.com/cs/cs_24/howto/plt522/plt522.htm

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mliszka1-VisitorAuthor
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September 4, 2015

Mahesh,

I believe a pen table will only control the thickness of lines, not the spacing of the dashes and spaces.

Mike

Mahesh_Sharma
Mahesh_Sharma22-Sapphire I
22-Sapphire I
September 4, 2015

Mike,

Yes, pen table will control thickness, this can use to control line pattern as well.

Pen.png

From http://support.ptc.com/cs/cs_24/howto/plt522/plt522.htm#pattern

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
July 25, 2015

Mike,

see my reply in Re: Axis Line Segment Distance

Martin Hanak

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mliszka1-VisitorAuthor
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September 4, 2015

Martin,

This seems like it should work, but for some reason changing the line_style_length parameter seems to have no effect on the PDF output no matter what I set it to. I see in the video that you can see the result of changing this parameter in the drawing view even before you export the PDF. I don't even get that.

Mike

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
September 5, 2015

Mike,

install http://www.screencast-o-matic.com software and made a video showing your actions. I can watch it and check your steps.

You can also upload your testing Creo files.

Martin Hanak

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