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Overheard a senior drafter in Boston call a set of prints 'unreadable' because of the line weights
It was for a basic foundation plan, and he was right, the thin lines just vanished. How do you guys pick your line weights for clarity without going overboard?
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the_mary1mo ago
My old boss in Providence once said my line weights looked like a spider sneezed on the page. I learned the hard way that 0.18mm is basically invisible on a printed sheet. Now I stick to a solid 0.35mm for most thin lines and bump it to 0.5mm for anything that really needs to hold up. It feels a bit thick on screen, but it prints so much better. The trick is making your layers do the work so you are not manually changing every single line.
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Boston prints need a 0.5mm minimum for thin lines.
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