Using pen thickness

Allplan provides 15 pens of different thickness, which you can select by clicking a number between 1 and 15. To specify which number represents which pen thickness, select the Tools menu, click Defaults and choose Pen Thickness + Format QuicktSelect. An element you are drawing either gets the current pen thickness or it takes the pen thickness from the current layer. For more information, see Defining format properties using layers.

If the Color stands for pen option is switched on, each pen thickness is represented by a specific color on screen and in printouts. You can also use Tools - Defaults - Pen Thickness + Format QuicktSelect to specify which color represents which pen thickness.

The different thickness settings are usually not displayed on screen. If you want to display the thickness, select the Thick line option in Show/Hide.

When printing, you can assign a thickness to each of Allplan's 15 pens in the Pen and Color Assignment dialog box (Print Layouts tool, Print profile tab, Pen and color assignments...).

Note: There are some particular issues to bear in mind when you assign pen thickness and line color to text and dimension text. For more information Pen thickness and line color of text and Pen thickness, line type and line color of dimension lines and text

What do you want to do?

Select the current pen thickness

Modify the pen thickness of an element

Adopt an element's pen thickness from the layer

Reassign a pen thickness