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Description

With lineweight you can select a specific width for a line which all the new lines will be.

Using lineweights, you can create heavy and thin lines to show cuts in sections, depth in elevations, dimension lines and tick marks, and varying object thicknesses in details.

 

Remarks

TIPS:Instead of changing lineweight any time you want a different lineweight, you can create different layers with the desirable lineweight.

Any future object in the drawing will be added with the new selected lineweight.

In model space, lineweights are displayed in pixels and do not change when zoomed in or out. Thus, you should not use lineweights to represent the exact width of an object in model space. For example, if you want to draw an object with a real-world width of 0.5 inches, do not use a lineweight, instead, use a polyline with penwidth equal to 0.5 inches to represent the object.