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Currently all lines of the views in the drawings are the same, and only get to their required state (thickness) during export, when pen tables control how thick the lines are.
I would like to remove the use of pen tables and start seeing actual thicknesses on the screen during development of the drawings. I tried playing with line thicknesses in line styles and I think I could make it work. But I only managed to change the line thickness for existing views, however any new model views still default to thin lines, regardless what I set as default line style.
I might be using that default line style functionality wrongly because no matter what I do with it it doesn't seem to change anything.
Is there a way to set the styles of the lines for new views in the drawings? I would like to set the model edges to be slightly thicker than surfaces (quilts) of cosmetic threads and crosshatches in cross-sections.
I am on Creo 9. Many thanks for the help.
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Hi,
Creo doesn't expect anyone to want to set line weights for Drawing mode in the way you described. Your efforts will only lead to you spending hours of time doing ineffective activities.
Hi,
Creo doesn't expect anyone to want to set line weights for Drawing mode in the way you described. Your efforts will only lead to you spending hours of time doing ineffective activities.
Thanks Martin, yes I was getting a feeling this wasn't a standard way to do things. Could you (or someone else) elaborate it though? Is it not what "default line style" was supposed to do?
@Ben8 wrote:
Thanks Martin, yes I was getting a feeling this wasn't a standard way to do things. Could you (or someone else) elaborate it though? Is it not what "default line style" was supposed to do?
Hi,
in 30 years of practice, I have never encountered such a requirement. Therefore, I don't know any solutions and I don't intend to look for them. I'm sorry, but I can't help you in any way.
Thank you Martin.
I marked your answer as a solution. If anyone will have any insights in the future though please add your comments, I'd love to learn more - esp. if anyone has ever found a way to actually achieve this. Thank you