Line weight problems between V8 and XM

Re: Line weight problems between V8 and XM

Carmine Corbo — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:08:55 GMT

My last post is in rference to custom linestyles, however if you are speaking about the default line styles then that is controlled in the plot configuration file.

Verify that the following statements in your plot configuration file are the same. If you use the same plot configuration file then the default line styles will plot out the same.

See the following excerpts from my plot config file:

; The style records define how the design file line codes (styles)
; are to be plotted. Values are in plotter units (resolutions).
; Values determine pen down/up movements, where (10,28) for a dot
; pattern leaves the pen down for 10 units and up for 28 units. The
; /nohardware switch causes software stroking with these values.
; This example has the /nohardware option commented
; out, so the printer will draw the styles.

style(1)=(18, 18)                  ;/nohardware     ;style = dot
style(2)=(37, 37)                  ;/nohardware     ;style = med dash
style(3)=(75, 75)                  ;/nohardware     ;style = long dash
style(4)=(75, 37, 18, 37)          ;/nohardware     ;style = dot-dash
style(5)=(27, 27)                  ;/nohardware     ;style = short dash
style(6)=(75, 37, 18, 37, 18, 37) ;/nohardware     ;style = dash-dot-dot
style(7)=(75, 27, 32, 27)          ;/nohardware     ;style = long dash - short dash

Re: Line weight problems between V8 and XM

Carmine Corbo — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:04:31 GMT

you need to set your symbology configuration varible to point to the same linestyle.rsc file in both applications V8.5 and V8.9.

See the attached user config.jpg

Re: Line weight problems between V8 and XM

Carmine Corbo — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:00:08 GMT

check the following:

level overrides and the line weights in the print attributes dialog
verify is you are using a pen table.
user configuration varibles for printing between the applications, it's possible that one of these configurtion variable is pointing to a pen table

Lastly post your plot configuration file and the dgn file that you are using and I will look at it.

Re: Line weight problems between V8 and XM

cooldster — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:44:54 GMT

That hasn't happened to me (atleast yet, maybe). I was wondering, since I have both as well, if you know how to import all the line types from XM to V8 (XM doesn't plot for some reason, so I plot from V8 but it doesn't have any line types loaded like in XM). Thx.