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does anyone know how the line width setting relates to the page scale?
say i have a plan set at 1:100 scale……..and the line width at 1.00
how wide is that line?
have set up some really fat lines and then tried to measure but have a feeling its related to pixels
are pixels scaled?
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Points: 26,364Rank: UC2 Brainery Advanced Brown Belt
That’s a good question @robgib0 that I haven’t heard discussed before. Have you tried drawing a series of lines of various weights and then using a measurement tool to see how they scale?
@Vince has been doing something similar using a “double” line style to create offsets. I’d suggest checking his video on how he is using this tool.
Keep us posted on what you find.
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Points: 1,510Rank: UC2 Brainery Yellow Belt I
it was @Vince offset posts that prompted my thinking on this,
and i did try making some fat lines and measuring….which led to my question re the pixels
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Points: 13,512Rank: UC2 Brainery Blue Belt III
Hi @robgib0
With some of my custom tools I run into this issue and I’ve found the following adjustment seems to work – if the tool was set with a line width of 3 at 1:50 then it needs to be 1.50 at 1:100 and 0.75 at 1:200.
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Points: 23,485Rank: UC2 Brainery Brown Belt III
The line weights are a reflextion of the pixels which are unfortunetly not going to scale as we wish they would. Just another example where Bluebeam is frustratingly close to being a drafting tool. But not quite there.
With most markups we have remember we can collect an accurate measurement, but have the visual be a close representation.
Great question @robgib0
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