Tried scaling my line weights on a blueprint by eye and got called out hard

I was working on a set of floor plans for a small house remodel near Des Moines last fall. I got lazy with my layer settings and just eyeballed the line weights for walls, doors, and dimensions. Turned in the PDFs to the lead architect and he flagged half my sheets within an hour. Turns out my wall lines were too thin and my dimension lines were too thick. I had to go back and re-plot everything using standard line weight tables. What I learned is that printing a test sheet at the actual scale before submitting saves a ton of rework. Has anyone else found a quick way to double-check your line weights without having to print every time?

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jessicaw541mo ago

Have you tried setting up a plot style table that forces all your layers to specific line weights? I do that in AutoCAD and it saves me every time. Once you assign line weights to layers in the CTB file, you can preview the plot and see exactly how thick everything will print. That way you don't have to rely on eyeballing or printing test sheets. Another trick is to draw a simple test rectangle with different line weights on a corner of your sheet, then check it in the preview. Catching it before you hit submit is way easier than redoing twenty sheets.

the_rose1mo ago

Wait, doesn't AutoCAD have a setting where you can just override all lineweights in the plot setup itself? I swear I found that once and it saved me from having to mess with the CTB for every single layer. But maybe yours is different.

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