About Line Thicknesses Definition

This topic provides general information about line thicknesses.

There are 55 line thicknesses definitions in the Standards editor. You cannot add additional instances of line thickness definitions. Out of these 55 definitions,

• line thickness definitions ranging from 1 to 8 are pre-defined with different parameters for each, and available.
• line thickness definitions ranging from 9 to 55 are pre-defined with the same parameters for all, and unavailable.

You can configure these definitions to suit your needs, by modifying one or several values of the parameters defining the style.

Once defined, a thickness can be applied to any element which supports it, either via context menu, Properties, or using the Graphic Properties in the Object Properties panel.

This topic provides information about the Availability parameter available in line thicknesses definition.

The Availability parameter specifies whether or not a given line thickness should be available in the thickness list for users to choose from, when creating or editing elements. Users will only be able to assign "available" line thickness definitions to these elements. However, existing element properties in drawings will not be affected: if an existing element is assigned a line thickness which is flagged as "unavailable" in the Standards editor, then this line thickness will be used for this element but it will not be available in the thickness list, so that users cannot apply it to other elements.

This topic provides information about line thickness in drawings created with releases up to V5R9 SP2.

In releases up to V5 R9 SP2, line thickness used to be defined in Me > Preferences > Common Preferences > User Interface > Thickness & Font for the Drafting app as well as for other apps. For Drafting, line thickness is now defined in standards. Therefore, line thickness in drawings does not depend on the options defined in Me > Preferences, but on what is defined in the standards.

When opening a drawing created with releases up to V5 R9 SP2 (i.e. a drawing which does not contain its own line thickness parameters), the line thickness options defined in Me > Preferences will be used. You can upgrade a drawing to this new standard format at any time, by performing the following operations in Page Layout:

• Changing the standard to another standard (ISO > ANSI-ASME for example)
• Updating the current standard to the new format.

This topic describes configuring line thickness for the 2D Layout for 3D Design app.

• When displaying line thicknesses in the 2D Layout for 3D Design work area: the line thicknesses which are used are those defined in standards. This is the case of all elements displayed in the 2D or 3D background of a view in the 2D Layout for 3D Design work area, whether they are:

  • Layout elements (geometry, annotations and so on),

  • 3D wireframe elements (lines, points and so on).

• When displaying line thicknesses in the work area (Part Design, for example): the line thicknesses which are used are those defined in the options (through Me > Preferences > Common Preferences > User Interface > Thickness & Font). This is the case of all layout elements (geometry, annotations and so on), when displayed in the work area.

• When printing a layout: the line thicknesses which are used are those defined in standards.

• When editing part layouts in the context of a product: the line thicknesses which are used are those defined in the standards of the current layout (even when visualizing elements which belong to another layout). For example, take the following scenario, where the layout of Part.1 uses ISO_3D, the layout of Part.2 uses JIS_3D and the line thickness definitions are different in ISO_3D and JIS_3D.

  In this case, when visualizing Part.2 in the background of the Part.1 layout, Part.2 will be displayed using the line thickness definitions of Part.1.

  Therefore, if you want the visualization of elements to be homogeneous in the 2D and 3D work areas, you need to make sure that line thickness definitions in the standards match line thickness definitions in the options.