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Fajar Roux
I am trying to create a linetype which has 3 separate lines into a single line. The top and bottom lines are Continuous with a global width of '0' and are offset 0.4 ft from one another. The center line is a Dashed2 line with a global width of 0.4 ft. Above is a picture of what the lines look like as 3 separate entities. I would like to be able to draw this as a single line instead of having to offset and adjust the global width each time I make a new pipe. Is there any way to turn this into a new linetype?
We are using standard AutoCAD for this and are not using MLines to create this. The 0.4ft global width line is the component we are having trouble with as we are able to make a new linetype with 3 lines offset properly, but when we change the global width it changes it for all 3 of the lines.
If you're talking about a multi-line-pathed linetype of some kind, then you must be talking about lineweight rather than width [which is a property of Polyline segments]. Since all linear elements in a linetype must necessarily be on the same Layer, and the same color, a lineweight applied to such a thing would indeed affect all elements in it, just as it would all the line pieces in a Hatch pattern, or the strokes in .shx-font text characters, etc. That's why I think something from the link in my earlier Reply might be needed. It can [for example, in one of the approaches suggested there] incorporate non-linear elements such as .ttf font characters that have their own solidity, and aren't related to lineweight.
A coworker has a drawing he's twisted 90 degrees with DVIEW. As a result some of the linetypes with text are upside down. Any ideas how to resolve this? I've tried REVERSE but that didn't rotate the text.
I have the same issue. I am dview/twisting my viewport so that north points more or less south. I can rotate my text and multileaders, and can switch from left to right or right to left my dimension texts, but all linetypes show upside down. I cannot reverse them, I cannot draw them the other direction, I cannot rotate them.
This issue may have nothing to do with the .LIN file. I recently received a .DGN that I converted to .DWG and some linetypes appeared mirrored. I did UCS > OBject and click on the beginning of the line. The result was an upside down ucs. It's almost like these lines were drawn from below, looking up.
I have my layer properties set up in the property manager as well as the layer states manager. The problem I'm having is my linetypes will suddenly stop changing when I change layer as I'm drawing. For example, if I'm drawing a white line with a dashed "Hidden" linetype, and I change to a yellow object line that's set up to be "continuous" in my layer properties: Only the color changes. The linetype stays the dashed "Hidden" linetype until I change it manually.
My linetypes have always changed with my layers in relation to how I have them set up in my layer states manager or layer property manager. When I check my layers in the property manager, they are still set up and everything is in place as normal. However, the linetype will not change with the layer as I'm drawing. I have to set the the linetype manually in the ribbon every time I make a line and it's extremely annoying.
I was hoping someone could help? I was tasked with creating a linetype for a silt fence. I first drew a few items that I later turned into objects and made several attempts to try to find a way to create a linetype with text inside a circle and the the circle to be not transparent. I did create the linetype, however, the circle was transparent and I needed what was below to be not visible. I was able to achieve this using the objects I created and the using the multiline tool and setting the offset to zero but it did not work as well as I thought it would. Also, the object hatch I created in the attached dwg file I used color 255 and set in the ctb file to use object color to have a white background when plotted.
I don't think you can do what you're after in a single linetype. A linetype definition can't have elements in different colors. I would suggest a Block [in which things can be of different colors] with the Circle and Text [no reason for it to be an Attribute Definition] and masking Hatch pattern [which may as well be Solid, not parallel lines], and separately, a linetype with the X's in it [whether as Shapes or as Text elements]. Then draw the silt fence "path" in that linetype, and ARRAYPATH the Block along that path. If you do it as an associative Arraypath, it will adjust itself if you alter the shape of the path. And you can set it to not Align the Blocks with the path, so that all the SF's will always be upright.
EDIT: Wipeout sounds better, although it would need to be polygonal, whereas a Solid Hatch pattern can be truly circular. And the Customization Forum is really the better place for something like this -- it's not version-dependent [the linetype part, that is -- for older versions that don't have ARRAYPATH, similar though non-associative results can be gotten with MEASURE/DIVIDE].
Hi I am trying to create a custom linetype with text (DTEXT) and allow for the text to have a grip associated with it so if i have crossing lines, i can move the text out of the way. I wouldn't mind a lisp if thats what is has to come down to but basically i am looking to create an underground electric linetype ("UE" in the center).
If they are [or sometimes are] Polylines, you could add a vertex somewhere in the vicinity, disable linetype generation in that Polyline, and if merely adding the vertex doesn't "fix" it, drag that vertex one way or the other along it, for the same effect. [In that case, unlike with Lines, if there's anything that depends in any way on the length or area of the Polyline, it won't be affected.]
I think you are trying to use AutoCAD's tool to make a linetype from geometry? I am not sure why it's not selecting the text for you - perhaps it only allows you to use lines & circles etc to make linetypes with that tool, not text.
We're creating a custom linetype using a shape file to represent a railroad. Is there a way for this linetype to NOT be annotative? I don't want any change in scale when I change the scale of the drawing (but I want all my other linetypes to scale normally).
I doubt it. A linetype is a linetype, AutoCAD doesn't know that you're using it to represent train tracks that have a constant width regardless of drawing scale, and if other non-continuous linetypes are changing with different-scaled drawings, that one will, too. You would need to assign objects drawn with it an override linetype scale factor different for every scale of drawing, or do the whole thing differently, representing the physical situation in model information unaffected by linetype scale, such as with something like parallel OFFSET Polylines for the tracks and ARRAYPATH or maybe MEASURE with a crossing Line or rectangle for ties.
invisible? Do you mean HIDDEN linetype? Load it if it's not in the file you are in, LINETYPE command's LOAD button, ensure you have selected an unmodified ACAD.LIN file (assuming that's your problem, someone edited yours).
I do not believe that an "invisible" linetype was ever part of the out-of-the-box ACAD.lin file (but I could be wrong about that). I had previously read about someone creating a linetype that simulates invisibility, however. My apologies to the person who originally came up with this idea, as I do not recall where I read it (or if the person writing it was the originator or just someone passing the idea alogn).
The "invisible" linetype consists of a starting Dot and then a really long pen up segment. For all but truly crazy-long lines, you will end up with a dot at each endpoint and nothing in between. I used the following and it worked for me. Unless your lines exceed 83 quadrillion feet in length (or whatever 999,999,999,999,999,999 drawing units works out to for the units you are using in your file), you will only get a dot at the starting and ending points of your line.
The attached ZIP file contains the custom LIN file I created so that I could load this linetype into a drawing file. (These Discussion Groups do not permit attaching LIN files directly.) You could also add this to your ACAD.lin file if you prefer - but if you customize that, you will want to back it up so you have a record of your customizations so that you can add them to future ACAD.lin files.
I could be wrong too, but I believe the 'Invisible' linetype came from the Softdesk days. One of my CAD Managers in the past was meticulous about documentation, and he always had this linetype labeled as a Softdesk one. The custom line added to my ACAD.LIN is this:
Your not missing anything.... An unfortunate normal behavior with this linetype. AutoCAD doesn't actually 'draw' an arc, rather small line segments. Each dot is at the start and end of the lines that make up the arc. The amount of dots on the arc will correlate to your display resolution settings (Options- Display Tab).
The "S" linetype on the bottom starts with the shape, at the cost of the line itself not actually touching the endpoint. Depending on the overall length of the "S" type line, the end shape will be some distance away from the true endpoint too.
in order to be able to use this linetype in other drawings you also have to send the .shx file + the .lin file. these files must lay in folder that appears in OPTIONS support files search path. generally it is in support folder.
Marianne,
"...because it can't find the shapefile."
Yup.
In OPTIONS >> Working Support File Search Path, add the folder where you want to keep custom linetypes. When I dropped your 3 files into that folder, the error message went away and I could load that linetype.