Line thickness problems when saveing to pdf

[gtóth]

Hello!

After I save a drawing as a pdf file my lines become very thick. Something like this:

Is there a way to fix the lines so that they have a normal thickness?

I'm using creo 2 student edition with windows 10.

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[MartinHanak · Accepted solution]

Hi,

export to PDF is driven by following config.pro options

pdf_use_pentable yes

use_8_plotter_pens yes

pen_table_file path_to_file

pen table file - example

pen  1   thickness 0.05 cm;  color 0.0 0.0 0.0;  drawing_color

pen  2   thickness 0.025 cm; color 0.0 0.0 0.0;  letter_color

pen  3   pattern 0.5, 0.2 cm; thickness 0.025 cm; color 0.0 0.0 0.0;  half_tone_color

pen  4   thickness 0.035 cm; color 0.0 0.0 0.0;  edge_highlite_color

pen  7   thickness 0.015 cm; color 0.0 0.0 0.0;  dimmed_color

MH

[gtóth]

Thanks, it kinda worked but only with this pen table:

pen 1 thickness .005 in
pen 2 thickness .005 in
pen 3 thickness .005 in
pen 4 thickness .005 in
pen 5 thickness .005 in
pen 6 thickness .005 in
pen 7 thickness .005 in
pen 8 thickness .005 in

And now all my lines are the same thickness. Is there a way to make creo use thicker lines for draving lines and thiner ones for dimension lines?

[MartinHanak]

Hi,

see default pen mappings in the table. Visible model edges are plotted by pen 1, dimension lines by pen 2.

Pen Number	System Color	Mapping
1	Geometry (white) Curve (dark blue) Manufacturing Volume (purple) Quilt (magenta) Datum (brown) Preselection Highlight (cyan) Preview Geometry (yellow) Secondary Preview Geometry (pale yellow)	Visible geometry (plot as solid lines, except where noted): Cross-section cutting plane lines: plot as phantom lines Cross-section cutting plane arrows and text Drawing format and boundary Tag text Centerline line font with white color Brown portion of datum planes
2	Letter (yellow)	All items plot as solid lines (except where noted): Dimension lines Leaders Axes and centerlines: plot as centerlines Geometric tolerance lines All text (except cross-section text) Balloon notes Cross-hatching Centerline line font with yellow color
3	Hidden Line (gray)	Hidden lines: plot as dashed lines, phantom font
4	Highlight-Primary (dark red) Selected (red) Secondary Selected (orange)	All items plot as solid lines: Spline surface grid (does not plot in drawings)
5	Sheet Metal (dark green)	Sheet metal color entities
6	Sketched Curve (blue)	Sketcher section entities
7	Highlight- Secondary (dark gray)	Toggled sections, grayed dimensions and text, dimmed tangent edges Dark gray portion of datum planes
8	Highlight-Edge (green)	Spline surface grid

MH

[AmitDeshpande]

Hello,

As Martin mentioned, it would be beneficial to use a pen table file.

Thanks,

Amit