July 2007 Archives

Setting line thicknesses in VectorWorks

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When it comes to printing, line thicknesses are essential to get proper printouts. Black lines set to wee small values will appear as thin gray lines.
Objects in VectorWorks can either use individual attributes (as set by the palette »Attributes«) or inherit attributes from classes. Classes in VectorWorks provide an outstanding capability to manage attributes for multiple objects across a drawing. Thus the unit editor of interiorCAD uses classes for managing attributes of units.

To adjust the line thicknesses of objects via their classes, open the class dialog. Select all classes you want to change. To select multiple classes, use Shift-click resp. Ctrl-Click on Windows and Shift-click resp. Cmd-click on Macintosh computers. Then press »Edit...« and set the line thicknesses to a reasonable value:

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