WYSIWYG - Maybe: Line Weights

[Andrew G. Buck]

Is there a preference that needs to be set that will allow me to see the relative line thickness in a drawing?

Every line I draw appears with a thickness of 1 until the line thickness is set to about 40.

The only way I can judge the relative weights of my lines is by printing or by reviewing each line in the object browser, both of which are time consuming.

Thanks.

[CipesDesign]

In the VW's PREF's is an item called "zoom line thickness". Most of the time it works fine, however if your are zoomed out too far line weights will all appear the same. Hope that helps :-)

[Andrew G. Buck]

That is what I was looking for. Thanks. I feel like I've got a new program!

[MullinRJ]

Andrew,

Here is a one line VS command that will let you toggle the Zoom Line Thickness preference:

SetPref(9, not GetPref(9));

Create a script in a script palette with this, or goto www.vectordepot.com/plugins1.shtml and look for Toggle Lineweight Zooming (more than halfway down). You can add this to your plugins folder, then add it to your workspace (it's a menu command and you should find it under Miscellaneous) and assign a keyboard shortcut to your new menu command. You can then toggle the preference on and off at will. Now your new program will be Turbo Charged.

All the best,

Raymond

[mike m oz]

If you are a Mac user try Vectorbit's Toggle Preferences.

http://www.vectorbits.com/

It provides a pallette tool which control most of the VectorWorks and Document preferences.