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gspencer-41-Visitor
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February 7, 2017
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Section cutting plane line font is different between two like drawings but drawing configs appear to be the same.

  • February 7, 2017
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I couldn't find a better area to ask this: I have two drawings with nearly the exact same part detailed. One has a section cutting plane line font as a dense phantom line. The other has a very wide spread phantom line font that, in my opinion, does not look good on the print. I can't find any discrepancies between the two drawing configs so I'm not sure why this has changed between the two drawings. I don't think it's the size of one of the parts as the part with the preferred cutting plane line font - its casting drawing has the bad looking cutting plane line font and obviously the casting is the same size...besides stock. I don't think the PTC defaults have changed in the time it took me to finish one drawing and create the other either as, again, I don't see any differences in the drawing configs. In the Creo drawing the cutting planes look alike but as soon as I plot them on PDF or even print them directly from Creo the one changes to the spaced out phantom font. Any ideas???

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
February 7, 2017

Hi,

I guess that the difference is cause by line_style_length drawing option.

See also Axes printing

MH

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gspencer-41-VisitorAuthor
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February 7, 2017

Hi, thanks for the reply. I don't see that drawing option in the drawing properties. Is that for Creo 2? Also, I should mention that it appears to be any NEW drawing I create after around the time I created that first drawing. I guess any drawing that was made before that I modify has a drawing option that is already set while every drawing I make now is set up with the new cutting plane drawing option? But again, I don't see any differences in the drawing properties. Some hidden config setting?

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
February 7, 2017

Hi,

open both drawings and save their drawing properties into files. Upload these two files (use How to Attach a File to a Discussion Reply procedure), I can compare them for you.

MH

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gspencer-41-VisitorAuthor
1-Visitor
February 7, 2017

Hi, thanks for the reply. I don't see that drawing option in the drawing properties. Is that for Creo 2? Also, I should mention that it appears to be any NEW drawing I create after around the time I created that first drawing. I guess any drawing that was made before that I modify has a drawing option that is already set while every drawing I make now is set up with the new cutting plane drawing option? But again, I don't see any differences in the drawing properties. Some hidden config setting?

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