Editing a pdf in illustrator makes thin lines to appear wider.

Good Evening,
When I print a pdf from AutoCAD with some lines set to 0,05mm lineweigh, open and edit the pdf file in Illustrator without touchind those lines and then save again to pdf the line weight increase. Here are a couple of examples.
How can I solve this?
Edit: The align to pixel grid is disabled in the transform panel.

Hi Jacob,
Problem is that the stroke weight is set correctly, and in the printed document it's ok, it is still annoying that on screen the stroke seems so different.
Thank you.

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