Kristen Posted October 25, 2005 Share Posted October 25, 2005 My doors are driving me crazy. I use the door plug-in tool to create placed symbols (so that I have just one symbol for all 3'x7' existing doors in a file, for example). I would swear that I've always been able to control their appearance with class settings on the lineweights. It's not working any more. I really don't want to mess around with setting each lineweight in the 2D display settings box. Also, this doesn't work for me because I need to be able to reference the file to a drawing set up at a different scale, and differrent class lineweight settings. I never remember having this problem before. Pleases tell me I've just forgotten some very basic setting. VW 11.5 Mac OS10.3.9 Quote Link to comment
mike m oz Posted October 26, 2005 Share Posted October 26, 2005 Edit the symbol - in the OIP have a look at the line weight settings under 2D Display Settings Quote Link to comment
Kristen Posted October 26, 2005 Author Share Posted October 26, 2005 Thanks... I'm just not getting the plug-ins to act the way I want them to, though. I want to be able to change the lineweight by class attribute, not through the OIP. Because I need to show these drawings at both 1/8 scale (for which we use, say, a 8pt lw for new doors) and at 1/16 scale (should be 4pt lw). When I reference the file to a 1/16 scale sheet with all class lineweights set to our 1/16 scale standards, the symbols containing plug ins don't change, when I set them in the OIP. All I can think to do is to go through and ungroup all my symbols, losing the 3D advantages. Quote Link to comment
Pedro P. Palazzo Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 This is better achieved through viewports: on the viewport properties, set to scale all line weights by, say, 50%. Quote Link to comment
Kristen Posted November 8, 2005 Author Share Posted November 8, 2005 Oh-ho. That is a viewport feature that I'd never used and forgotten about. Sounds good. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
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