WorkNC line thickness to HP T230 can Rhino solve this?

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Hi,
Friend of mine uses WorkNC to draw aircraft plans, he is world expert.
He used a HP T120 large format printer which honoured the line thicknesses allocated to various parts of the aircraft, when printing his plans.
Now he has a HP T230 and its first line is THICK, then it grades upwards from such.

In other words he cannot get it to print the line thicknesses he has used in the drawings.

Unlike Rhino where a different line thickness needs a different layer to be used, he is able to have different line thicknesses all on one layer. All his CAD work is done that way.
sort of Graphics prog days !

All was OK until the T230 was purchased, the T120 being beyond fixing, T230 software has oriented to autocad.
Buy a Canon, no, too expensive, 2k versus 700.

Just wondering if there is any way at all that Rhino8 (he also has Rhino8) can help in this ?

he has tried printing raster pdf but its lousy.

he also says Rhino hairline also comes out THICK to the T230.

HP have goofed.

he has sent a test file, WorkNC produces an .xdw file

iges makes all line thicknesses same.

I can’t open an .xdw in Rhino.

attached this .xdw
had to zip it as all supported formats wouldnt show it.
what a crazy default file type workNC uses.
Line thickness check.zip (20.6 KB)

Cheers
Steve

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Was cool before they got bought out by Vero. :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

Use CadExchanger? https://cadexchanger.com/

Hmm that’s not cad though lol
“The .xdw format is primarily associated with DocuWorks, a document management software developed by Fuji Xerox (now Fujifilm Business Innovation).”

Good luck. I have a hard enough time getting Rhino to do simple blue print style layouts on paper.

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Totally wrong…

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Hi,
which bit is wrong ?

what he manages to do or what I do ?

(he uses Levels sounds like layers, …)

Whatever,… I am jotting down what he said to me.

and I wish to help him print to the T230 somehow, perhaps via Rhino8, and get his designed line thicknesses to appear.

Steve

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Perhaps you have overlooked the fact that virtually all object properties can be set by layer or by object…

That includes display color, linetype, print width, print color, etc. That means that you don’t need separate layers for different print widths.

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Hi Steve,

Referencing the thread you started in May of this year What exact steps and settings to print 9x6 inch rectangle as tiff it is possible to save the TIFF as you described, see my response there.

… I am not sure this relates to the issue described in this thread but using the TIFF format might resolve this?

I think using the XDW format to attempt to resolve this will be a wasted effort. It’s a legacy format and also an uncommon one. I saw only one reference on the internet to XDW and it was actually on the Rhino forum here

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OK, noted, I work with everything set to layer, much more easy to alter all line thicknesses that way, no doubt there is a selLineThickness command to do so another way.
Also I can alter colours easier that way.
No doubt others prefer all different colours on one layer though no visual guide to what layer is responsible for that colour.

The fact remains, my friend has WorkNC, has different line thickness all on one level or layer, whatever its called, and when he prints to the HP T230 it makes his thinnest line thick and other thicknesses different to those in the design.

How best can he solve this ? he has Rhino8.

What way, Rhino or not, can he solve this ?

I asked him how he would send me the file, so I could carry on working on it as if (pretend) I needed those line thicknesses in my own work using his object.
.iges he said but it loses all line thicknesses !

Is that all that WorkNC can do as a file export to Rhino with retained line thicknesses ?

Have you tried printing as a raster image, as that way no daft software on the T230 can alter line thicknesses,. yes but hopeless quality etc.

what about make a pdf, same answer, lousy.

So can we help him ?
Can he use Rhino8 to stepping stone the file to print correctly ?

He has tried Rhino8 and the HP T230 also makes the thin line go thick. Its been orientated to autocad thus making this problem, the T120 was ok.

So anyone thinking of getting a HP T230 for Rhino beware !

Not sure why WorkNC creates this obsure file type .XDW that seems only to have mention of Docuworks, but it does.
file attached in prior post.
Must solve this as a nightmare.
suggested he sell his gold fillings and buy a Canon printer ! :laughing:

Steve

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Steve,

Rather than look to Rhino to solve this, have you and your friend referred to the manual for the T230? Specifically, have you worked through this section and the associated links?

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Regards
Jeremy

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Hi Jeremy,
He tells me the thinnest CAD line comes out thick and the line thicknesses are reversed, so as this article points to paper, I dont see how a thick line in CAD can come out thin.

It is geared up for AutoCAD he says, whilst the previous T120 wasnt and reproduced his drawings, same paper etc etc.
The line thicknesses are progressing thick to thin wheh should be thin to thick.

He says Rhino 8 also ends up with the same results from it.

has anyone a T230 and using Rhino8 ?

Cheers

Steve