Fat lines when reducing scale drawings

[Anonymous]

Once a drawing is complete, is there a way to make it print all hairline if it's used in another layout at a MUCH smaller scale? i.e: using a large scale site plan on a full size sheet, then using the same drawing on another layout as a MUCH reduced key plan.

If walls, property lines, etc., cannot be made to print as hairline (or better yet, it they were scaleable), these lines become blurred together in their own fat. Any solutions?

[Link]

An effective solution is to assign unique pen sets to each scale of drawing. Just make all pens thinner for the smaller scales.

Cheers,
Link.

[Laura Yanoviak]

Patrick wrote:
Once a drawing is complete, is there a way to make it print all hairline if it's used in another layout at a MUCH smaller scale?

Create a Pen Set with all pen weight values set to 0 (zero) and assign the smaller Drawing this Pen Set.

[Karl Ottenstein]

What Link and Laura said - use pen sets for different scales.

Laura wrote:
Create a Pen Set with all pen weight values set to 0 (zero) and assign the smaller Drawing this Pen Set.

Only caveat I would add here is something mentioned a couple of years ago on these forums - not sure by whom, Duane Valencia, David Larrew, Eric Batte??? Someone back then reported that they had a new fancy laser wide format printer that printed at 1200 dpi (or higher?) and that if they used a pen width of zero, the line was so thin that when someone tried to make copies of the drawings, those lines would not reproduce.

Karl