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How to export a suitable imaginary line in Cero 2.0 engineering drawing?
The ratio of the imaginary line in my .drw file is ok(left picture), but the RATIO of the imaginary line changed when I save the .drw file to .pdf file, the ratio is too large as we can see from right picture .
So someone can give me a kind suggest of how to adjust my configuration file to export a suitable ratio?
Thanks for your support.
I am sorry that I CAN NOT find line_style_length in drawing options, without this option in cero2.0.
What I should do next? Thanks.
Hi,
you have to type the option manually.
Option field ... contains line_style_length and line font name ... for example ... line_style_length CTRLFONT
Value field ... contains length value, for example ... 10
Suggestion: Add following options and test their behaviour to find what line font is related to axis line.
line_style_length CTRLFONT 10
line_style_length CTRLFONT_S_L 10
line_style_length CTRLFONT_L_L 10
MH
Thanks for your patient support!
The matter in my side has solved by using your advises.
I set following two options in my .dtl file, then the line style arrived my expected when I save as .pdf file.
TWO options:
line_style_length CTRLFONT_S_L 10
line_style_length CTRLFONT_L_L 10
This could becaused by a number of things, depending on if you are using a pen table, user-defined line fonts, etc. Creo automatically scales the line fonts based on the size paper you are plottting on, and if you want the "scale" of the line font to be smaller you probably need to create a new line font. In the drawing Format section of the ribbon, select Line style->edit fonts->new->Copy from->CTRLFONT. Edit the default value of unit length as desired. Now go set your centerline to the new style under line style->modify lines. This is the only solution that worked for me. Setting the line_style_length CTRLFONT drawing option only works for sketched entities, it does not affect a datum axis created in the model. Creo does not scale user-defined line fonts by default, so you may need to set the use_software_linefonts config option.
use_software_linefonts
Also, if this works and you need to use the new line font in multiple drawings, you can set the aux_line_font drawing option.
see http://www.proesite.com/cgi-bin/find_option.cgi?srch=aux_line_font&ver=wildfire2&mode=drwsetup
Here is a sketched line and a datum axis both with line style set to CTRLFONT, and line_style_length CTRLFONT set to .1
http://www.proesite.com/cgi-bin/find_option.cgi?srch=aux_line_font&ver=wildfire2&mode=drwsetup
I stand corrected - As explained in the HELP DOCUMENTATION, axes that are set to CTRLFONT are actually shown as CTRLFONT_S_L or CTRLFONT_L_L. This makes perfect sense. Thanks again for the grey hairs, PTC.