John Connor wrote: Discuss anything CAD related you want.

Great!

Yes, lineweight DOES have an affect IF you turn it ON. Format > Lineweight >check off "Display weight in graphics area".

Googling "Display weight in graphics area" I learned that I had to enter "LINEWEIGHT" in the command line to be brought to the dialog "Drafting Styles". This Dialog directly showed me the Option "Display weight in graphics area". I just needed to check the box and found myself in a new world with line width defined via layers.

Remember that just like AutoCAD there is a built-in Help file.  Make use of it.

Hmmm, honestly, I had searched in Google and read the built-in Help all the day.
But because I searched for "Line Width" but DraftSight calls it "Line Weight" I could not find anything.

Thanks again, John Connor!
Thomas

PS: One sentence that popped up in Google: "This tip should be displayed when the application starts." Being a newbie I agree.

Discuss anything CAD related you want.

Yes, lineweight DOES have an affect IF you turn it ON.

Format > Lineweight >check off "Display weight in graphics area".  Re: other forum and Draftsight question. Anyone who has used Draftsight for more than a day should have been able to answer the question.

Remember that just like AutoCAD there is a built-in Help file.  Make use of it.


Edited by John Connor - 09.Oct.2014 at 18:44

Thank you, John Connor, Draftsight really is a great 2D tool - except one basic thing that drives me crazy:
The Line Width from the layer has no effect.
Same for an explicite Line Width given to a line - it has no effect.

Because setting the color to the layer and then getting the line color from the attached layer works perfectly I do not think making a systematic mistake.

In another forum I found a  Draftsight thread concerning Line Width and Line Stile, but finally discussing Line Stile only, so I am still lost. Is it fair / welcome me to discuss this in this forum too? Please let me know if not.

Thomas

It isn't nice to hijack another forum member's thread to ask an unrelated question.

Maybe you downloaded the wrong service pack.

Draftsight is an AutoCAD clone so of course it can open DWG and DXF files at least any that are saved in 2010 file format or earlier.  I don't know if it can import SKF files I'd have to check.  My guess would be "no".

Yes, it has layers, and dimensioning and polylines can be given a width.  Like I said, it's an AutoCAD clone.  It is most closely associated with AutoCAD LT thus the reason it is marketed as being a 2D CAD program.

OK, I checked.  Draftsight can only import SAT files.