| Article | 60000179 |
| Type | HowTo |
| Product | Engine |
| Version | 6 |
| Date Added | 6/7/2007 |
| Submitted by | Stavros Meimaroglou |
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Output device can be the Screen or the Printer paper.
Hatch Patterns:
Hatches are draw as solid when at least one distance of a hatchpaternline is less than 0.02 inch(0.5 mm) in output device units
Hatch paterns VdFillModeHatchBDiagonal,VdFillModeHatchCross,VdFillModeHatchDiagCross,VdFillModeHatchFDiagonal,VdFillModeHatchHorizontal and VdFillModeHatchVertical compute the distance between lines to be 0.0833 inch(2.12 mm)in output device units so when zooming(and printing) they look the same always.
Linetypes:
Linetype are drawn as solid when the segment length is less than 0.033 inch(0.84 mm) in output device units.
Texts:
Text are drawn as rectangle when the text height is less than 0.033 inch(0.84 mm) in output device units
To convert the drawingUnits to output Device Units of a printer with scale = PrinterScale use the following formula:
PrinterDeviceUnits = drawingUnits * PrinterScale
If for example in your drawing you have a text with height 1 DU(drawingUnits) and print it out in a Printer with PrinterScale 1000/2000 then the text height in printer paper will be 1*1000/2000 = 0.5mm in output device units which is less than 0.033 inch(0.84 mm) and it will print out as rectangle but if the text height is 2 DU then it will print with height of 1mm in printer paper as text.