Line Quality

I am new to the autocad world and am trying to establish the solid lines as
about 0.012". I set the default to this and it is o.k. except the dimension
lines and hidden lines are heavy also. How can the differences be
established?

 

Have you spent some time in the plotting section of the on-line help or an
introductory book? If not I'd recommend it.

AutoCAD is a fairly complex application, and if you are going to dive in by
yourself you will want answers quicker than a newsgroup will provide.

There are numerous questions (version? plot style table? current space?)
that would have to be answered before anyone could offer anything better
than a guess.

 

I have AutoCad 2007 Bible by Finklestein. I haven't ran into anything yet
that would answer this, but I will keep punching away.

What is 'current space'?

 

You're using 2007, then? What about your plot style table?

The current space is the space (model, or paper) which you can currently
modify. While in one space, say modelspace, you cannot modify another, say
paperspace, or 'layouts' as they have come to be called, and vice versa.

You can tell what space you're in in a variety of ways, but, without knowing
anything about your settings, the least ambiguous is probably to use the
STATUS command. It'll report the current space along with some other
important settings. Other possible indicators are the UCS icon (depending on
settings and version), or the extent of motion possible for the pointer
(sometimes confused by overlapping ports or the zoom factor), or the setting
of the TILEMODE (Zero means modelspace for sure).

I don't know the book you have but if it has "lessons" where you follow
along, I would start that way, especially if you don't have someone to sit
by your elbow and explain stuff to you. AutoCAD "out of the box" and "stand
alone", is a pretty Kafkaesque experience. You can do it, though. I did it
with r10. I would encourage you to strive to become familiar with the
correct nomenclature and to use it, especially when going to others for
help, whether in the flesh or online. You'll get faster, better results .
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MichaelB
www.michaelbulatovich.ca