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Choosing line weights

Choosing line weights - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Choosing line weights

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Certain elements of a design will be more important than others. Increasing the pen weight is a great way to make important geometry stand out on a printed sheet. In this we'll use line weights to add emphasis to geometry. On my screen I have a mechanical part and I'd like to print this drawing. So I'll move up and click the Plot button. In the plot dialog box, I'll start by selecting my printer, I'll choose DWG to PDF. You can select any printer that you'd like, I'm going to stick with the 8.5 by 11 inch sheet, I will then open the Plot Area Menu>Window. From here, I will click twice to define the rectangular area that I'd like to print on the sheet. I'd like this drawing centered, so I'll choose Center the Plot. And, I'd like to plot this drawing to a measurable scale, so I'll remove the Fit to Paper selection. If we look right here, we can see that the drawing is not going to fit at a scale of one to one. So, I'll Open the scale menu, and I'll select one to two. And if we look at…

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