linetype ?

is it posible to start a custum linetype with a shape or does there
always need to be a line segment?

thanks,
ervin

 

you're always going to need at a minimum, an occasional dot. we've tried to make custom linetypes comprising large dots, large squares, big asterisks, etc., but if we go the route of a .lin file, you'll always need a occasional dot right in the middle. so for our fancy linetypes, we just developed some Lisp code that drops in appropriate blocks, and then anonymously blocks the entire line segment as one.

--Jeremiah

 

this example shows that it's possible,

each symbol you see is actually two coincident symbols

if an object with this linetype is exactly 8 units long (or a multiple of
8), then the symbols are directly on the endpoints of the line

*TEST,|________|________|________|________|
A,0,["|",STANDARD,S=1],8,["|",STANDARD,S=1],0