Monday, February 21, 2011
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Actually, there are several ways to draw bold lines in autocad . These are the following:
A. The simplest way to draw a bold line in autocad is by doing the following steps:
1. Type in 'L' or 'line' and define your line by specifying the starting and end points.
2. Select the line you've just created. The selected line should highlight.
3. Finally, use the line lineweight toolbar and assign the line weight.
B. Use pline to draw lines in autocad :
1. You can use a pline to draw a line. You can also make an ordinary line a pline by using the PEDIT command. Once you are sure that it already a pline, assign it a width value.
2. This should create a bold line in autocad. This is not a lineweight but basically the same idea.
C. Move the line object onto the a layer:
1. You can also move the line into a layer.
2. Assign a lineweight to that layer. However, make sure that the lineweight of that entity is set to 'bylayer'.
C. Move the line into a layer and assign that layer a color:
1. In this method, you have to move the line entity into a layer and assign that 'layer a color that corresponds a pen color setting in your color table to print thicker than others.
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