Line Weights

The Line Weights set the printed line width and printed color of the pen buttons found on various edit windows and settings screens. These pens affect the appearance of 2D objects (arcs, dimensions, lines, etc.) when they are printed or plotted. They do not affect how 2D objects look in the Drawing Editor.
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Description: The name of the pen's line weight setting.

Width (mm): The width of the pen line in millimeters.

Color: The printed color of the pen line.

  • The position of these form buttons on the screen tells you what settings they apply to. Click here for more information.
  • You can Copy ( ) the settings on this screen , then Paste ( ) those settings to a different screen of the same type.
  • Save ( ) saves a file to a global folder ( ) that is used by your current version of SDS2. Give the file a name that will help other users identify its purpose. Load ( ) replaces the settings on this screen with the settings that are stored in the file that you select.
  • When editing multiple screens at the same time, Paste and Load replace mixed entries to a single field with a single entry. Copy and Save ignore fields with mixed entries, treating them as if they have no entry or do not exist.

OK (or the Enter key) closes this screen and applies the settings.

Cancel (or the Esc key) closes this screen without saving any changes.

Reset undoes all changes made to this screen since you first opened it. The screen remains open.

  • Pen 0 is used for filling in 2D holes generated on drawings during auto detailing or by users manually adding the holes. It's display color is set using the Filled hole pen color on the Pens screen in Drawing Presentation.
  • Pens 1 through 7 are used in the Drawing Editor to draw graphic entities (lines, labels, etc.) against what is, by default, a black background. To obtain easy-to-read shop drawings, the defaults for this window set all pens to black and with a range of pen widths.
  • Line Weights also affects Export PDF Drawings.
  • Red or yellow exclamation point icons ( or ) indicate that a setting field is required to be filled out or corrected before the settings can be accepted by clicking OK. Hover your mouse cursor over the icon to make a tooltip appear with more information.