"complex" linetype

I am sure this is not a problem.

I want to make a line wich will begin with a dot then small space,
continous, small space and dot at the end.
.. ______________ .

I tried with

A,0,-.5,some large number,-.5,0 that didn't worked I get different spaces
between dot and the line depending on the angle of the line ?!
I tried to put A,0,-.5,2,2,2,-.5,0 that gave slighlty better result but
still different lines depending on the angle ?!

Please help,

Danko Modric

 

Is it really dependent on the angle? I assume you have different line
length. Because AutoCAD fits the line type in the line length you will get
different results.

Juergen

 

That's correct. It depends on length.
But I still cannot get what I want in any linetype scale. Gap between the
dot and line is to small or it's to big.

Danko Modric

 

The gap is part of *your* design. If you don't like it you should change it
to something that suits you and your protocol LTSCALE. If you are
going to want the same linetype at different scales on the same drawing
but not dependent on VIEWPORT scale, you might lookup
the CELTSCALE variable.

BTW, it doesn't sound like a "complex linetype" to me because
they have SHAPEs or TEXT in them-yours doesn't.

 

HiHo;
Try this
*DOTDASHDOT_2,DotDashDot_2
A,0,-.1,.8,-.1,0,-.1

 

I can't get it to work in any LTSCALE.
It's "complex" enough. I can't make it work

It sounds simple. One dot at the start, line, and dot at the end.
Try it yourself...
I have AutoCAD 2000, maybe I must buy 2005 to get it work

Thanks

Danko Modric
www.modus.hr

 

Does that work for you?
Can you please send me your drawing on email.
Thanks

Danko Modric

www.modus.hr

 

The rest of this post is probably all wrong, and
I'm going completely from memory:

Lines have to start with a segment. I know a "dot" is a segment of
zero length, but one of the reasons acad wants a line at the beginning is
to have something to adjust so that depending on the length of
line that you draw it will 'center' the dash/space pattern on the line. A
line
of zero length doesn't adjust very well- it turns into a short line, I
presume.
Is that what you are seeing?

The original post could be interpreted to read that your problem is
with the length of the GAPS in the line. I'm now guessing that's not the
problem.

 

No, line always starts with a dot. In a small LTSCALE, AutoCAD draws dashdot
line. When I enlarge LTSCALE value to get only one line between the two
dots, Acad allows me to multiple LTSCALE to the certain value (gaps are
still to big), then one number over that max value line becomes continuous.

Hope you understand...

Maybe this is a wrong approach to make this kind of lines? I didn't expect
this to be such a problem.

Thank you.

Danko Modric
www.modus.hr

 

The gaps and the segments are proportionally constant, or should be,
with the exception of the beginning and ending line segments.

If the proportion of the line to the gap needs to vary in the same drawing,
then you need
to design more than one linetype (one for each proportion).

Broken lines default to what appears to be continuous when the length of the
line
is to small to render the pattern at the current LTSCALE. That's normal.

I hope that helps.

 

Cut this in wordpad and save as CADVANCE.LIN

Then load the DASHDOTC Linetype and give it a try


;;
;; AutoCAD Construction & Property Linetype file
;; Version 1.0
;; Copyright (C) 2000 Alan James Wooldridge
;;
;; Date of Last Edit 17/02/2003
;;


*DOT, Dot ........................................
A, 0, -1.588
*DASH, Dash _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
A, 3.175, -1.588
*CENTER, Center___ _ ___ _ ___ _ ___ _ ___ _ ___
A, 19.05, -3.175, 3.175, -3.175
*DASHDOT, Dashdot_._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.
A, 6.35, -3.175, 0, -3.175
*PHANTOM, Phantom___ _ _ ___ _ _ ___ _ _ ___ _ _
A, 15.875, -3.175, 3.175, -3.175, 3.175, -3.175
*DIVIDE, Divide __..__..__..__..__..__..__..__.._
A, 6.35, -3.175, 0, -3.175, 0, -3.175
*BORDER, Border __.__.__.__.__.__.__.__.__.__.__.
A, 6.35, -3.175, 6.35, -3.175, 0, -3.175

*DOTCUST, Dot custom........................................
A, 0.5, -0.75
*DASHSMAL, Dash Small _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
A, 1.0, -1.5
*CENTREC, Centre Custom___ _ ___ _ ___ _ ___ _ ___ _ ___
A, 18.09, -2.50, 2.0, -2.5
*DASHDOTC, Dash Dot Custom _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.
A, 8.5, -2.5, 2.0, -2.5
*DASHLONG, Dash Long __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
A, 2.0, -1.5
*DASHDOUB, Dash Double __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
A, 2.0, -2.5
*BORDERC, Border Custom ___ _ ___ _ ___ _ ___
A, 8.5, -2.5, 2.0, -2.5, 8.5, -4.0