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Line thicknesses....

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Line thicknesses acording to pen tables... how do you figure out what a line is assigned too?

Config.pro? .dtl file?

At a clients office BTW.... We noticed that one machine printed from Adobe gave us the line widths that we wanted... priting from pro gave us a differnt line weight. For example the 'Tangent edges display style 'dimmed' is thicker on Pro/E and fainter (better in Acrabat).
 
In the Help under the Fundamentals section search for PEN in the index. There is a default mapping table that shows the pen number, the system color, and the mapping. Tangent edges show as plotting withPEN 7.
 
Controlled in config.pro using:


"pen1_line_weight 1"


Pen numbers are 1-8, second number is line width 1-16.


Controlled mostly by color and type of geometry, see "specifying a default pen mapping table" in the help section for complete explaination.
 

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