Download DraftBoard Unlimited : Reference Guide

Setting the Environment
The line weights shown in
this submenu are dependent
on the selected Units in the
Preference Submenu. If you
have selected metric units,
the line weight will be shown
in mm instead of inches.
Specifying a new weight for the current pen
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Any line thickness of less
than 0,07 mm appears one
pixel wide on the screen.
When you print or plot such
lines, you can see the
different weights. The Line
weight of dimension lines
can be only modified in the
Preferences submenu of
the Dimension menu
and should be always
0,25 mm.
1.
Drag to Weight in the Pen menu.
The submenu appears.
2.
Drag to the weight you want.
The pen takes on the new weight and the weight is selected in the
submenu.
Edit Weight
This command from the Weight submenu in the Pen menu sets the
weights for DraftBoard’s lines. DraftBoard comes with eight
pens with differing line weights ranging from 0.13 to 1.50 mm.
Objects drawn in DraftBoard are drawn in one of the eight available
pen weights. With the Edit Weight command in the Pen menu, you
can change the weight of one of the pens to any value between 0.00
mm to 1.50 mm.
There cannot be more than eight different pen weights in a drawing, so
changing a pen weight in the Edit Pen Weights dialog box will change
the weight of every object that was drawn with that pen’s former weight.
Editing Line Weights
1.
Choose Edit Weight from the Weight submenu of the Pen menu.
The Edit Pen Weight dialog box appears.
2.
Select the pen weight you want to change by clicking on the pen
number. That pen’s entry box should be selected.
3.
Change the pen weight by typing a new value into the entry box.
If no units are given with the entry, DraftBoard applies the
unit specified in the Units dialog box from Preferences.
If the entry does not fall with in the valid range from 0 to 0,039
Inch or 10 mm, DraftBoard prompts you with an alert box
similar to the following one.
Remember that pen weights
thinner than .007 mm will
show up on the screen as
one pixel thick. However,
you should be able to see
the difference in pen
weights on your prints and
plots.
Alert
Please make a valid entry for the
Pen Weight. Only values between
0 mm (") and 10 mm (0.39") are
allowed.
OK
4.
Click OK.
All existing lines drawn in the pen weight you edited will be
changed to reflect the new weight, as will all future lines will be
drawn in that weight. The new pen weights are valid until the end
of the current DraftBoard Session or you define another pen
weight. Clicking Cancel ignores all changes made to any pen
weights and closes the Edit Pen Weights dialog box.
Undoing a Pen Weight Edit
Edited pen weights are not
backwards compatible with
previous versions of DraftBoard . Opening a file that
contains edited pen weights
in a previous version of
DraftBoard will revert the
pen weights back
to their original settings.
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You cannot undo editing a pen weight with the Undo command.
To return a pen back to DraftBoard’s default, you will need to enter
the original value in the Edit Pen Weight dialog box, following the
steps described above.
Saving edited Pen Weights permanently
Edited pen weights affect only the pen weights in the current file. To
save the edited pen weights so that they are available in all future files,
choose the Save Preferences command from the Preferences submenu of the Layout menu.