Dimensions and Extension LInes

[seven_tech]

Ok, here is the question. at one company i worked at the extension lines were a thin lineweight about half the size of the actual dimension line. if the dimension line and text were a 0.12 lineweight the extension lines were a 0.4 lineweight. At my current company the extension lines and the dimension line are the same weight (0.12). The advantage to the thin line weight is an extension line is not confused with an object line. I guess i'm asking which do you prefer. myself i prefer the thinner lineweight for an extension line.

[H'Angus]

Ok, here is the question. at one company i worked at the extension lines were a thin lineweight about half the size of the actual dimension line. if the dimension line and text were a 0.12 lineweight the extension lines were a 0.4 lineweight. At my current company the extension lines and the dimension line are the same weight (0.12). The advantage to the thin line weight is an extension line is not confused with an object line. I guess i'm asking which do you prefer. myself i prefer the thinner lineweight for an extension line.

I think you may have the 0.12 and the 0.4 the wrong way round. 0.4 being thicker than 0.12

I've always used a thinner line for the extension lines, we actually use a thin grey/screened line. It makes drawings easier to read in my opinion.

We did the same thing back in the hand drawings day, a 0.25 pen for the dimension lines and a 0.13 for the extensions.

Having said that, the dimension styles made by Autodesk, (which come with Autocad Architecture for example) are all the same colour/thickness.

[RobertB]

Drafting conventions, if not standards, dictate a thinner lineweight for extension lines. Don't they teach this in school still?

[H'Angus]

Drafting conventions, if not standards, dictate a thinner lineweight for extension lines. Don't they teach this in school still?

Not sure. I guess it's the difference between a draughtsman/draftsman and someone who can use Autocad.

[gfreddog]

Not sure. I guess it's the difference between a draughtsman/draftsman and someone who can use Autocad.

That's why I won't call myself a draftsman, I haven't yet taken any drafting classes. So I'm a CAD Operator. At the company I'm at now, I am not the CAD Manager I'm the Senior CADD Engineer.

Back on topic though, I think I like that idea of thinner extension lines and may try to incorporate it here.

Back off topic again: as a volunteer firefighter for 24 years and counting DRAFTING has a different meaning to me

[jaberwok]

Drafting conventions, if not standards, dictate a thinner lineweight for extension lines. Don't they teach this in school still?

You would hope/expect so.

Remember the joy when acad first allowed different colours (with ctb = different weights) for the component parts of dimensions?

[seven_tech]

Drafting conventions, if not standards, dictate a thinner lineweight for extension lines. Don't they teach this in school still?

Thats the way I learned how to do it. but i think you and i both know all it takes is one former Cadd Manager to think otherwise and all of a sudden you have a "standard" that is not at all standard.

[jaberwok]

Thats the way I learned how to do it. but i think you and i both know all it takes is one former Cadd Manager to think otherwise and all of a sudden you have a "standard" that is not at all standard.

That sounds like the voice of experience.

[jmdraft0]

Old dummy-Forgot how-dimensions too big

Don’t know how/where to post this.

Retired 6 years and forgot much. Too hard to find in help.
Sorry to be old and forgot so much. I used to know stuff like this. My dimensions are way too big for DWG scale and I don’t remember how to fix. I have a screen shot. Also version is old-2006. Can some one offer quick fix?

[jaberwok]

Old dummy-Forgot how-dimensions too big

Don’t know how/where to post this.

Retired 6 years and forgot much. Too hard to find in help.
Sorry to be old and forgot so much. I used to know stuff like this. My dimensions are way too big for DWG scale and I don’t remember how to fix. I have a screen shot. Also version is old-2006. Can some one offer quick fix?

Are you drawing entirely in modelspace or using model and paperspace?
If you use paperspace (layouts) do you dimension in modelspace or paperspace (IIRC paperspace dimensioning was pretty poor in A2006).
Most importantly - what is the value of DIMSCALE? The correct value will vary with the answers to the above questions.
Unfortunately, getting the result you want depends on several inter-related variables.