TechDraw: dimensions too strong

[outdoorbits]

Hi,

using TechDraw I'm facing two problems:

• Lines of dimensions are much stronger than edges

• visible lines of the drawing are very thin

Of course I can change Line Width of a dimension-line. Default is 1. But the next dimension I insert, will have Line Width=1 again. Is there a central option I did not find?
If I try to change the Line Width of the drawing (View), there is no effect at all.
But if I add a SectionView, this line is affected by View/Line Width.

How can I get a correct relation between lines of the drawing and dimensions?

Thank you!

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OS: Ubuntu 21.10 (KDE/plasma)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.20.
Build type: Release
Branch: unknown
Hash: cd3ba642df79b228fda9bd14ed0fba6203367b52
Python 3.9.7, Qt 5.15.2, Coin 4.0.0, OCC 7.5.2
Locale: German/Germany (de_DE)
Installed mods: 
  * fasteners 0.3.41

[chrisb]

• Lines of dimensions are much stronger than edges

• visible lines of the drawing are very thin

You may have messed up TechDraw LineGroup in Preferences>TechDraw>Annotation>LineWidthGroup.
If you cannot fix it: as a workaround you can select all dimensions and change a common property for all of them at once.

[wandererfan]

If I try to change the Line Width of the drawing (View), there is no effect at all.

Is this the PPA version? Problems with line width changes not being reflected are a symptom of this issue #6698.

Other than that issue, line widths are controlled by the LineGroup.csv file. Dimensions use the "thin" line from the LineGroup and visible lines use the "thick" line. In my environment these are 0.13mm and 0.25mm respectively, using the "*FC 0.25mm" set from the default LineGroup file.

[outdoorbits]

My LineGroup.csv is unchanged and has this definitions:

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*FC 0.25mm,0.13,0.18,0.25,0.50
*FC 0.35mm,0.18,0.25,0.35,0.70
*FC 0.50mm,0.25,0.35,0.50,1.0
*FC 0.70mm,0.35,0.50,0.70,1.4
*FC 1.00mm,0.50,0.70,1.00,2.00
*FC 1.40mm,0.70,1.00,1.40,2.80
*FC 2.00mm,1.00,1.40,2.00,4.00

In Preferences>TechDraw>Annotation>LineWidthGroup I selected "FC 0.50mm". The screenshot is taken from a new generated example. I think, the Lines-section reflects FC 0.50mm. The dimension has Line Width=0,25 mm. I would expect to see the drawing in 0.5 mm. Whats my mistake?

[wandererfan]

Whats my mistake?

I don't think you are making a mistake. There is something not right about the PPA versions of v0.19 and v0.20 combined with Ubuntu 21.10. The AppImage version of v0.19 works well on my Ubuntu 21.10 VM.