We (Lanco) are a group of 35 designers/engineers and all of us are having this problem! In the attached drawing image arrow 1 shows the view correctly, with the correct line font. The other labeled views refuse to change from the phantom line font! I can change them manually by selecting a new component line front for the device, and un-checking the option "all views", but as soon as a rebuild is done (ctrl+Q) the phantom lines come back. I can print them locally with the line font correctly, but the SOLIDWORKS PDM Task to generate PDFs and other documentation wont capture these changes, in fact as soon as the drawing is checked in the lines go back to phantom! It is extremely frustrating as the resident "SW Expert" (and I am a CSWE) to have 34 people breathe down my throat about an issue SOLIDWORKS doesn't seem to care about! I can contact my VAR all day long, and I feel like it is a game of telephone where I explain the problem to them in my words, and they explain ti to SW in their words, and SOLIDWORKS hears something completely different and comes back with a reply that they cannot reproduce my problem! When is this going to get better...? Sometimes I like all the market power SW has and other times (like this) its a bane, because problems like this are such a small blip on their radar. If SOLIDWORKS is listening to this rant - please review the attached drawing image and note that from a drafting perspective it is wrong and looks terrible! Your software generated it and for the last year and a half has not developed a fix, your organization should be ashamed to produce this rubbish, I know mine is! Solid Edge, although not as good a tool overall, contained a much better, more consistent drawing environment! We got real results when we had valid issues, and we reported them directly to Solid Edge/Siemens not a VAR middleman.
If SW is listening to my rant - I would love to get some feedback on this issue.
