1989hf Posted September 24, 2014 Posted September 24, 2014 You must bear with me as I'm pretty much self taught on CAD. One thing which I've never understood is the scaling of linetypes and in my new job I have to use it lots. I draw highways, so the linetypes have to be accurate. My model space is always 1:1, but when I'm plotting at say 1:500 or 1:250, the length of the lines mess up. I've solved this by changing the linetype scale to 2 for 1:500 and 4 for 1:250. I have to do this for every individual line though and I'm not even sure if it's the correct method. Can anybody advise? Quote
rkent Posted September 24, 2014 Posted September 24, 2014 MSLTSCALE = 1 LTSCALE = 1 (some like using .5) PSLTSCALE = 1 CANNOSCALE = (DESIRED PLOT SCALE in each viewport, set with anno scale drop down lower right) Quote
1989hf Posted September 24, 2014 Author Posted September 24, 2014 Thanks for the reply rkent, but this doesn't work. I've changed everything to 1 and set cannoscale to 2:1 but the scale is still out. I've done a regenall too to make sure. Quote
rkent Posted September 24, 2014 Posted September 24, 2014 If you changed the object's scale you will have to set them all back to 1. Also, are you drawing in a unit of 1 meter? Quote
ReMark Posted September 24, 2014 Posted September 24, 2014 Can you confirm that you used a metric template as the basis for your drawing? And can you also confirm that you used metric linetypes for us please? Thanks. Quote
1989hf Posted September 24, 2014 Author Posted September 24, 2014 I am using a metric template and linetypes - 1 unit = 1 meter. All of the linetypes are 1 - I changed that and nothing changed. It only works if I do LTSCALE=2 Quote
rkent Posted September 24, 2014 Posted September 24, 2014 I don't have any experience with using the ISO... linetypes, but it ltscale = 2 then that is what I would use. Quote
1989hf Posted September 25, 2014 Author Posted September 25, 2014 Please see file attached - the green lines should be 0.6m dashes with 0.6m gaps. EXAMPLE.dwg Quote
eldon Posted September 25, 2014 Posted September 25, 2014 (edited) I find it curious working that ALL your layers have a Continuous Linetype, and any different linetype is set to an entity. Also, all your linetypes seem to be custom ones, so it does not matter whether your template was metric or imperial. Edited September 25, 2014 by eldon you have sorted out plotting scales, so remark was unecessary Quote
1989hf Posted September 25, 2014 Author Posted September 25, 2014 Ok, so do you have any solutions? Quote
steven-g Posted September 25, 2014 Posted September 25, 2014 I fail to see a problem in your drawing, in both layouts the line segments are 0.6 I don't see where you are applying different scales to the line Quote
eldon Posted September 25, 2014 Posted September 25, 2014 I think that you want to set PSLTSCALE to 0, because the custom linetypes are drawn to the the correct length which you do not want to scale in the viewport. Quote
Ski_Me Posted September 25, 2014 Posted September 25, 2014 I find it curious working that ALL your layers have a Continuous Linetype, and any different linetype is set to an entity. Also, all your linetypes seem to be custom ones, so it does not matter whether your template was metric or imperial. What you will have to sort out is that the plotting unit is always a millimetre, and your drawing units are metres. I was looking at that too. The OP could set all his linetypes in the layers manager couldn't he? Quote
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