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gtóth1-Visitor
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November 20, 2016
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Line thickness problems when saveing to pdf

  • November 20, 2016
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Hello!

After I save a drawing as a pdf file my lines become very thick. Something like this:

Névtelen.png

Is there a way to fix the lines so that they have a normal thickness?

I'm using creo 2 student edition with windows 10.


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Best answer by MartinHanak

Hi,

export to PDF is driven by following config.pro options

pdf_use_pentable yes

use_8_plotter_pens yes

pen_table_file path_to_file

pen table file - example

pen  1   thickness 0.05 cm;  color 0.0 0.0 0.0;  drawing_color

pen  2   thickness 0.025 cm; color 0.0 0.0 0.0;  letter_color

pen  3   pattern 0.5, 0.2 cm; thickness 0.025 cm; color 0.0 0.0 0.0;  half_tone_color

pen  4   thickness 0.035 cm; color 0.0 0.0 0.0;  edge_highlite_color

pen  7   thickness 0.015 cm; color 0.0 0.0 0.0;  dimmed_color

MH

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MartinHanak24-Ruby IIIAnswer
24-Ruby III
November 21, 2016

Hi,

export to PDF is driven by following config.pro options

pdf_use_pentable yes

use_8_plotter_pens yes

pen_table_file path_to_file

pen table file - example

pen  1   thickness 0.05 cm;  color 0.0 0.0 0.0;  drawing_color

pen  2   thickness 0.025 cm; color 0.0 0.0 0.0;  letter_color

pen  3   pattern 0.5, 0.2 cm; thickness 0.025 cm; color 0.0 0.0 0.0;  half_tone_color

pen  4   thickness 0.035 cm; color 0.0 0.0 0.0;  edge_highlite_color

pen  7   thickness 0.015 cm; color 0.0 0.0 0.0;  dimmed_color

MH

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    gtóth1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    November 23, 2016

    Thanks, it kinda worked but only with this pen table:

    pen 1 thickness .005 in
    pen 2 thickness .005 in
    pen 3 thickness .005 in
    pen 4 thickness .005 in
    pen 5 thickness .005 in
    pen 6 thickness .005 in
    pen 7 thickness .005 in
    pen 8 thickness .005 in

    And now all my lines are the same thickness. Is there a way to make creo use thicker lines for draving lines and thiner ones for dimension lines?

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      MartinHanak24-Ruby III
      24-Ruby III
      November 23, 2016

      Hi,

      see default pen mappings in the table. Visible model edges are plotted by pen 1, dimension lines by pen 2.

      Pen Number

      System Color

      Mapping

      1

      Geometry (white)

      Curve (dark blue)

      Manufacturing Volume (purple)

      Quilt (magenta)

      Datum (brown)

      Preselection Highlight (cyan)

      Preview Geometry (yellow)

      Secondary Preview Geometry (pale yellow)

      Visible geometry (plot as solid lines, except where noted):

      Cross-section cutting plane lines: plot as phantom lines

      Cross-section cutting plane arrows and text

      Drawing format and boundary

      Tag text

      Centerline line font with white color

      Brown portion of datum planes

      2

      Letter (yellow)

      All items plot as solid lines (except where noted):

      Dimension lines

      Leaders

      Axes and centerlines: plot as centerlines

      Geometric tolerance lines

      All text (except cross-section text)

      Balloon notes

      Cross-hatching

      Centerline line font with yellow color

      3

      Hidden Line (gray)

      Hidden lines: plot as dashed lines, phantom font

      4

      Highlight-Primary (dark red)

      Selected (red)

      Secondary Selected (orange)

      All items plot as solid lines:

      Spline surface grid (does not plot in drawings)

      5

      Sheet Metal (dark green)

      Sheet metal color entities

      6

      Sketched Curve (blue)

      Sketcher section entities

      7

      Highlight- Secondary (dark gray)

      Toggled sections, grayed dimensions and text, dimmed tangent edges

      Dark gray portion of datum planes

      8

      Highlight-Edge (green)

      Spline surface grid

      MH

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        AmitDeshpande18-Opal
        18-Opal
        November 22, 2016

        Hello,

        As Martin mentioned, it would be beneficial to use a pen table file.

        Thanks,

        Amit

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