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I have a CAD underlay in which I overrode several line type weights so they whould show up better. Earlier today I realized I could not change a drafting line from one line type to another. Then I realized that when I could do so, despite changing the weights of the line types, the weight of the line will not change, at any scale. Then I realized that all the overriden lines in the CAD underlay are not showing up, despite the overrides still being set. As of now a WIDE line is showing up as a THIN line, at any scale. Does anyone know what the problem may be?
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Make sure "Thin Lines" is turned off. View > Thin Lines or type "TL"
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Well, I tried rolling back to yesterday and the last save from yesterday didn't have things they way they should have been, so I rolled back to midday yesterday and it was the same thing. So, I got a message that I could no longer save to central, so I closed everything, rebooted, opened the central file so I could save a new local file and everything, except for the work I did earlier today, was the way it was supposed to be. I have no idea what the problem was and I don't have time to worry about it but if anyone might know I'd appreciate your advice.
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It was brought to my attention that you were referring to CAD overlays and nor Revit linework, and while i understood that part I had never verified that the Thin Lines tool affected CAD drawings as well. As an experiment, I imported a simple DWG with only a single layer, overrode the line weight in the View Graphics dialogue for that layer of the cad drawing to a very thick line type, which immediately showed up in the view. Using the Thin Lines tool (not the line works tool) does affect line weight of imported/linked cad drawings as well. HTH,
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hi, I have no idea what the "thin lines" tool is. Is it just the option for a thin line? Actually, not only were the overriden lines in the CAD underlay not showing up, but like I said, if I put in a "wide" detail line, it would appear as a "thin" line. I go look for thin line tool now. thank yo.
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What rktect is referring to is your way of contolling how lines are displayed - NOT printed. The thin lines button is the 3rd icon to the right of the eye. When you click that, you toggle between all lines shown thin on the screen and all lines shown in relative thickness. BUT THIS HAS NO EFFECT ON PRINTING!
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" Make sure "Thin Lines" is turned off. View > Thin Lines or type "TL" "
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I did indeed look it up, but revit help is useless 99.99999999999% of the time.
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REVIT's help is really pretty good - far better than ACAD's. Don't use more than one word and think about what you are searching for - sometimes there is a better word to search with.
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So, did the 'Thin Lines' tool help at all? Also, I use this tool often- usually for visibility reasons. If I have a lot of geometry occuring in an area it's useful to turn off line thicknesses to see exactly what's happening.
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Oh yea. Once I figured it out I've been using it since.
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But How does one change the line weights of cut geometry like walls in the floor plan.Mine are really thick and clunky looking. Ivve tried to use the object styles dialog box, but adjustments to the line weight yeilds no change. THe thin lines is off btw. Ive even tried messing with the line weights dialog. nothing. no change to the display.
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go to settings - object styles - walls: you can set line weights in projection or cut. Jack it up, way up, to 10 or so at first to see if they are indeed changing. Depending on what scale your drawing is in, small changes might not be visible. In other words, once in a site plan that was 1:40, I had to juice up the lines to 7 and above to make them clearly bold and discern between them.
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Didnt work, :-( I can change from 1-16 thicknesses, and nothing changes. nothing. I have taken two screen shots and you can see my display. and yes I said OK when I took the shot so the settings are in effect. take a look, please this is driving me nuts :-P the image left side is 16 weight, image right side is 1 weight! Michael
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So was this ever resolved? I appear to be having a similar issue in which the Line Styles dialogue box is showing different line weight, there are no VG issues, TL is not activated, and I'm still not seeing differences in my lineweights in my drafting views.
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