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November 13, 2014
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Line Style change due to Format

  • November 13, 2014
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I have a line style question when I print out to PDF.

On the B size format the part prints out with more dashes and dots. (see image)

On the G size format the part prints out with less dashes and dots. (see image)

Does anyone know how I can get the part on a G size sheet to look more like the part on the B size?

The pen tables are the same, and the way I exported the drawing to PDFs are the exact same.

This leads me to believe that the format is driving the way the part looks, sound right?

Thanks in advance for your help.

    Best answer by MartinHanak

    Ryan,

    the size of font in PDF is related to size of the drawing. This is default Creo behaviour.

    This means ...

    >>> small size drawing contains short line segments

    >>> large size drawing contains long line segments

    To get requested result, you have to modify drawing configuration.

    For example, imagine that you want to use PHANTOMFONT and that repeated piece of the font could be 0.2 inches long. In such case you have to add the following option into drawing configuration file:

    line_style_length PHANTOMFONT 0.2

    See attched files for more details.

    Martin Hanak

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    MartinHanak24-Ruby III
    24-Ruby III
    November 13, 2014

    Ryan,

    please upload drawing files.

    Martin Hanak

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    rbreyette-23-NewcomerAuthor
    3-Newcomer
    November 13, 2014

    Martin,

    Thanks for responding. Unfortunately I cant due to the restrictions my company has. I was only allowed to do those 2 screen shots. Sorry about that. I know it might be tough to answer without all the info you might need.

    But I can tell you the drawing files are the same. They are actually on the same drawing just different pages with dif. formats. They look the exact same in Creo Drawing but change when export to PDF.

    Hope this helps any. If not, thanks for trying to help.

    -Ryan

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    TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
    17-Peridot
    November 13, 2014

    I thought there was something like a hardware font setting that controls this. However, I would think that the G-size would have a lot more dashes.

    Line fonts has always been a mystery to me. One of those black-box-magic things that only PTC gurus manage with a special brew.

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