What version of CAD are you using? In cad 2002 I usually use a different CTB file for each Plotter/Scale or Job I think there are about 10 to choose from on my PC.
If you are using an older version maybe using a prototype for each scale to be printed assigning diferent line waights to each layer? but as these drawings are meant to be at a larger paper size this may be a lot more hastle than its worth. Maybe it would be easier to use an all grey pen setting so all apear in colour 8 or 9? spose it depends on what you need the drawing for.
Brin
My drawings are simple 2D mechanical drawings done on A4-A0 templates. >
> I want to print A3 and larger drawings to my A4 LaserJet 4000, but the
> problem I have is that printing from model space, there's no option to scale
> the lineweights which makes the drawings print incorrectly.
>
> I have tried using a layout in paper space, placing a single A4 sized
> viewport with a scale factor to scale the drawing to fit in the viewport.
> The weird thing is that specifying the centre points for the viewport at
> exactly half the dimensions of the viewport, it appears with a small
> positive x and y offset. Is this because of the printer margin info in the
> driver?
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> How can I prevent this?
>
> Is there an easier way to scale the lineweights? Using named or
> colour-dependant print styles appears to be one way, but means setting up
> styles for each different size/scale and would need to be correctly
> specified within a layout when printing, which seems to be a clumsy way to
> go about it.
>
> Surely this is not an unusual situation - I can't believe that it is this
> difficult to achieve.
>
> Any help/suggestions would be very gratefully received.
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> Jonathan Finney
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