Each translation takes a small amount, but the operation is repeated constantly, and so it adds up to a huge waste.ģ. Mentally translating colors to lineweights takes time and brain power. That applies to the person creating the drawing as much as it does to the person reading the finished product.Ģ. We use multiple lineweights in a drawing to make it easier and faster to read. What is stupid and inefficient about using color to identify the thickness of a line?ġ. It can also make the translation back to the real world when importing, assigning a VectorWorks lineweight to each color in the DXF file. Once you choose those pen assigments, VW will keep using the same translation table every time you export, only asking what to do with any new lineweight it finds, until you tell it to change the table.
For each lineweight it finds in the VW file, it will suggest a color to assign to objects of that weight, and it will allow you to change the suggested colors. If you do that, VW will make up a table of pen assignments. To use that translation, you have to check the box in the Export window that says "Map lineweights to colors" (or something like that). VectorWorks accomodates that impulse to be stupid, by offering to translate lineweights to colors when exporting. That's a stupid, inefficient way to work, but, after all, if they wanted to be intelligent and efficient they wouldn't use Autocad.
Most Autocad users still use object color to assign plotter lineweight.
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