Expert: Bill DeShawn - 9/8/2004

Question
Dear sir,
Please can you help me and give me instruction how I can change thickness of drawing line.
I want change the thickeness of line in same drawing.
How I can make the line 0.5 or 1 or 1.5 or 2 ....
I use AutoCAD 14 and I dont have any special library of lines
Thank you in advances
Best Rgd
Daniel

Answer
Daniel:
Therer is a big difference in AutoCAD between Thickness and Width.  Thickness is the distance in the Z axis that a line will act as a 3D solid and become extruded at the distance specified by the user as the lines is either created or edited.  

Width talks about the width of the line as measured from one side (not one end) to the other.  Just so that you know that I know what I'm talking about, length is measured from one endpoint of the line to the other.  If what you really want is the line to print wider you can use colors to vary the width of the line.  Read up on the use of PC2 files and pen settings.  I don't have time to get into it this minute, because I'm going to work.  

You can also vary the width of a line by converting it to a polyline with PEDIT.  Or you can just draw a polyline with the PLINE command.

If you need more help, write again and I will help you some more
Bill DeShawn
http://my.sterling.net/~bdeshawn