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Inoram14-Alexandrite
14-Alexandrite
April 29, 2013
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text symbol line weight (line thickness) & making different size formats

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Hello,

In Creo2 I am setting up my format and trying to make everything look as nice as possible. So I picked a font and setup all the text thickness so everything looks nice in drawing mode and in PDF. The only thing left that I cannot figure out is how to make the text symbol elements look good. Currently they are thin lines in drawing mode but in a PDF they are fat.

Is there a setting I missed to set text symbol line weight?

My other issue is, now that I spent the time to make a nice looking format, I have not yet been able to figure out how to easily duplicate it to another size.

This one I just started working on this morning, maybe there is something simple I am missing.

thank you

Matt


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TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
17-Peridot
April 29, 2013

You can save the tables and you can save-as the formats. Generally it is a very manual process.

The actual symbols should take on your text thickness attributes but the surrounding boxes take on the lettering pen widths. If these require more thickness, I suggest using pen tables for plotting. If the text is too small on the formats, it could become a bit blotchy.

I have my text line thickness set to .012 and plot with the default pen tables for the witness/dimension lines. I also use one of the ISO fonts as a default font. These come out very readable in PDF even if D-size is printed on A-size... with reading glasses, of course.

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Inoram14-AlexandriteAuthor
14-Alexandrite
April 29, 2013

Thank you for the input. The text thickness setting changes it, interestingly though, the format is not pulling the text thickness setting from the prodetail.dtl like a drawing is. So when editing the format it looks odd, but then using it in a drawing it comes out correct.

I am using the TTF CG Triumvirate at the moment. It seemed like a clean, readable font when I looked through them. And so far it looks good on what I have created.

But currently, I have a B size format that I think is done and I need a to make a D size version. So yes, I did a save-as, but when I load the copy I have not yet been able to figure out how to make it a D.I hope I am just missing a setting somewhere that I can adjust.

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TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
17-Peridot
April 29, 2013

Ah... yes. Now I remember. That is why I was saving tables so I could use them in new formats. I do this so rarely I forget the limitations. I think the only shortcut you can use is to export and import the geometry as DXF in the new file.

I remember something about converting drawings into formats... probably as drawing templates. Hopefully someone can weigh in here. I know the discussion has come up before.

And yes, TrueType fonts ignore "thickness" settings at least on the screen. You have to assign a default thickness to the symbols to try to match the TTF lineweights. Are you saying that the TTF is plotting by adding the default thickness?

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ptc-2555081-Visitor
1-Visitor
May 21, 2013

config.pro :

pdf_use_pentable yes

pen_table_file C:\..\pdf_pen_table.pnt

Just check in your pdf export settings that Use pentable is ticked

*.pnt is a text file :

!pen 1 = geometry (white)

!pen 2 = letter (yellow)

!pen 3 = hidden (gray)

!pen 4 = highlight primary (dark red/red/orange)

!pen 5 = sheet metal(dark green)

!pen 6 = sketched curve (blue)

!pen 7 = highlight secondary (dark gray)

!pen 8 = highlight edge (green)

!

pen 1 thickness .005 in

pen 2 thickness .005 in

pen 3 thickness .002 in

pen 4 thickness .015 in

pen 5 thickness .008 in

pen 6 thickness .005 in

pen 7 thickness .010 in

pen 8 thickness .005 in

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