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November 20, 2025
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How to make hidden lines more visible

  • November 20, 2025
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Hi everyone,

I’m working in Creo Parametric 12 and I want to make hidden lines in my drawings more visible(you can see in photo 1 how it's now). Specifically, I want:

  • Dashed segments to be longer

  • Lines to appear clearer for printing and on-screen viewing

I think i have to add a line to my drawing settings but i don't know which one.

 

Could you please advise how to achieve this?

Thank you

Best answer by MartinHanak
@GV_11208110 wrote:

Hi Martin, thank you for taking the time to get back to me. The attached photo is taken from a PDF, but I’m experiencing the same issue both in the drawing files and in the exported PDFs. The hidden lines and axes are so faint that I can barely see them, and I need to increase the distance between the dashed lines.

Hi,

so there 2 cases ...

1.] Creo window displaying a drawing

I suggest not solving this case. This is because I don't know of any simple solution. Furthermore, the display of lines depends on the zooming of the drawing.

2.] PDF

PDF must be created by Save a Copy command.

config.pro must contain following options.

use_8_plotter_pens yes
pen_table_file E:\users\creo7_parametric\pentable.pnt ... this is my pentable
pdf_use_pentable YES

In pentable file you can define pattern for plotting hidden lines and axes.

Axes and centerlines are plotted by pen 2 by default,

Hidden lines are plotted by pen 3 by default,

 

Information source ... https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS433649

 

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
November 20, 2025
@GV_11208110 wrote:

Hi everyone,

I’m working in Creo Parametric 12 and I want to make hidden lines in my drawings more visible(you can see in photo 1 how it's now). Specifically, I want:

  • Dashed segments to be longer

  • Lines to appear clearer for printing and on-screen viewing

I think i have to add a line to my drawing settings but i don't know which one.

 

Could you please advise how to achieve this?

Thank you

Hi,

what "object" is displayed in photo-1.jpg. Is it Creo drawing -OR- PDF file ?

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GV_112081104-ParticipantAuthor
4-Participant
November 21, 2025

Hi Martin, thank you for taking the time to get back to me. The attached photo is taken from a PDF, but I’m experiencing the same issue both in the drawing files and in the exported PDFs. The hidden lines and axes are so faint that I can barely see them, and I need to increase the distance between the dashed lines.

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MartinHanak24-Ruby IIIAnswer
24-Ruby III
November 21, 2025
@GV_11208110 wrote:

Hi Martin, thank you for taking the time to get back to me. The attached photo is taken from a PDF, but I’m experiencing the same issue both in the drawing files and in the exported PDFs. The hidden lines and axes are so faint that I can barely see them, and I need to increase the distance between the dashed lines.

Hi,

so there 2 cases ...

1.] Creo window displaying a drawing

I suggest not solving this case. This is because I don't know of any simple solution. Furthermore, the display of lines depends on the zooming of the drawing.

2.] PDF

PDF must be created by Save a Copy command.

config.pro must contain following options.

use_8_plotter_pens yes
pen_table_file E:\users\creo7_parametric\pentable.pnt ... this is my pentable
pdf_use_pentable YES

In pentable file you can define pattern for plotting hidden lines and axes.

Axes and centerlines are plotted by pen 2 by default,

Hidden lines are plotted by pen 3 by default,

 

Information source ... https://www.ptc.com/en/support/article/CS433649

 

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