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  • December 15, 2017
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Folks,

This may or may not be an FME question so anyone with AutoCAD skills may be able to point me in the right direction.

I'm writing Mapinfo to AutoCAD and one of the objects is a polyline. The specified requirement is to set he polyline Format Attribute start_autocad_width and end_autocad_width to a value of 0.25.

I have achieved this.

However the result in cad is poor. Some polylines show with a width, some polylines show some segments with width.

Upon inspection the Autocad object property "Global width" is null. If this is set to 0.25 the issues noted above are resolved.

However the "global_autocad_width" is not an available format attribute.

I did read this may be a DWG template drawing variable PLINEWID but setting this has zero effect.

Any thoughts?

Best answer by lars_de_vries

I think there are two options:

1. The Format Attribute autocad_lineweight; or

2. The Format Attribute autocad_width

You could try both and see which one works (the best).

Hope this solves your problem.

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  • December 15, 2017

I think there are two options:

1. The Format Attribute autocad_lineweight; or

2. The Format Attribute autocad_width

You could try both and see which one works (the best).

Hope this solves your problem.

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  • January 18, 2018
lars_de_vries wrote:

I think there are two options:

1. The Format Attribute autocad_lineweight; or

2. The Format Attribute autocad_width

You could try both and see which one works (the best).

Hope this solves your problem.

@lars_de_vries I've only just had a chance to test this and autocad_width has a positive affect but on only one particular linetype. The other linetype is the AutoCAD standard ZIGZAG. I'm not sure but this style may not actually be able to be "widthed". I will also test lineweight to see if there is any affect.

 

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