I am trying to set up different printing widths. I am using clipping planes and dynamic sections. I was able to get a good control over the hatches using Section Styles, but I am struggling to assign line weights to the coundaries. This is what I tried:
Assigning a boundary width scale of 1, and a custom line type of 2mm. (Print display on, and I updated clipping drawings).
Perhaps I’m misunderstanding something. From your images, it looks like you are changing the properties of the “Exterior” layer. The curves in the detail on the layout are all on layers under the “Floor Plan” layer.
-wim
Ok. I tried changing the Layout print Width of the layer “Floor PlanCurve” to 2 mm and also could not see any lineweights (also tested printing and Updating clipping drawing).
But in any case, what I want to do is to change the line weights (by layers) of the different elements (interior, exterior walls, etc) The same way I am able to control the hatches in the 2D section drawing. Is that possible? Or am I only able to control the line weights of all the curves under the created 2D drawings?
When you unlock the layers for these curves and select one of them, you will see in the Properties panel that they have the “Continuous” linetype applied to them:
I’m not sure what that means in detail.
I would recommend, though, to start using the WIP when creating clipping drawings. There has been a lot of work done to this workflow in the WIP and it works much better than what is available in Rhino 8. Also, we are now moving into the bug-fixing stage of that development for Rhino 9, so feedback on the current state is greatly appreciated. There won’t be any changes to the way it works in Rhino 8…
-wim
Yes, that works for assigning a single, thick, line-weight to all curves from the section drawing under the curve layer.
What I meant is: Is it possible to control the thickness of the boundary hatches in the clipping drawing?
I am able to set/customize them here, in the 3D model:
(See thickness of exterior wall, these where defined using section style width scale factor, which is not the most intuitive way but that’s another discussion)
Ok I found a solution, posting it here in case it is helpful for folks:
Change Print width property to desired thickness to each layer.
Create Section Drawing with the option Print Width: By input.
The result is that the created 2D drawings, in layout view (print view), will have as a property whatever was assigned to them. If making any changes to print width property, it is necessary to use the command “UpdateClippingDrawings” again.
