Pen Sizes/Line Thickness

[Marc]

Interested to know what line thicknesses people are using out there.

I'm just using a crapy little epson on a4 size paper and I get no difference from .03mm to .15mmanyways I found a cool website that explains the whole paper size issue thing. It's a little hard to find the part about pen sizes so here's what he recomends:

.13.18.25.35.50.70it's all sq rt of 2 stuff.Hope it helps hope it's interesting.I'm trying to make this link work! arggggg

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http://www.cl.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-paper.html

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[Carl Burns]

.07, .13, .25, .50, 1.0 mm

I like having line weights that are 1:2, so perceptibly different (for architectural drawing).

The printer: HP430. The manual says .13mm is the smallest line, but in fact it gives a lighter line also, the .07mm, just by thinning out the dots I suppose.

similar website:

http://www.archivebuilders.com/aba006.html

- Carl

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[Marc]

Finally it worked.Anyways... the whole reason about the sq root of 2 is that when you reduce or enlarge you will have equivalent line weights.

That is to say if you are drawing with say a .13 on A4 and you enlarge to A3 you can keep drawing with .18 and so on.

Later skatersM