Auxiliary and section view arrows

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Auxiliary and section view arrows

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For our drawings we decided to make the section arrows and the short thick lines at the end of the cutting line they point at a bit thicker as the default at 0.18mm was confusing with dimensions and it was difficult to see. So I changed the font to 0.35 and the sections changed accordingly.
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Now from the same document properties I tried to change the font thickness of the auxiliary view, but it seems to affect only the section line when the arrow is set to behave the same a a section view. The arrow font itself is not changing, so we have a thick section arrow and a the same arrow but thin for the aux views, which thickness cannot be changed?
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Tried with SW2023 SP5.
SW has been around for almost 20 yrs and it is difficult to understand a basic setting like this was missing.
Am I doing it wrong?
by mp3-250 » Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:33 pm
Found the answer in the swamp: if the views are set to the layer -none- the arrow thickness is defauted to some general system options and do not follow the document properties...


As a reference for layers (https://www.goengineer.com/blog/use-lay ... s-drawings)
By default, you will have three choices:

-Per standard- will reference the document properties.
-None- is general and references the system options.
FORMAT is everything on the sheet format.
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Re: Auxiliary and section view arrows

Unread post by mp3-250 »

Found the answer in the swamp: if the views are set to the layer -none- the arrow thickness is defauted to some general system options and do not follow the document properties...


As a reference for layers (https://www.goengineer.com/blog/use-lay ... s-drawings)
By default, you will have three choices:

-Per standard- will reference the document properties.
-None- is general and references the system options.
FORMAT is everything on the sheet format.
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