LTscale question...

can you have different lt scales in different view ports???

I have everything in my drawing drawn at full scale, (details and plans) so
I can't have one ltscale for the all the layouts... if I could make one
view port with an ltscale of 1.000 and another view port at 12.000 lt scale
it would be great.... can this be done?

 

Yes. Make your ltscale:1, psltscale: 1, and your viewports at different
scales will display correctly.

Matt

 

so after my psltscale is at 1. how do i change one viewport's ltscale??

 

You may be thinking too hard - If your lt settings are set, when you make
the viewport and scale it (using the pulldown or xp factor) the viewport
will scale the linetypes itself.....now I'm thinking too hard.

Matt

 

Do you want your linetypes to look different in different viewports? The
PSLTSCALE system works on the basis that the linetypes look the same in all
viewports regardless of their scale.

Setting PSLTSCALE to 1 and LTSCALE to a value between 0.5 and 0.75 usually
gives the best results for the former option -- you don't have to change the
scales in individual viewports (in fact, you can't do that).

If you really want different looking linetypes, you'd have to make them on
different layers using different linetype patterns, and then freeze the
layers with the "wrongly scaled" linetypes in the viewports where you don't
want to see them.

 

that is the settings I had it at before...

I have one viewport at 1/60xp and one viewport at 1/12xp..... when ltscale
is at 1 i can see the hidden lines on the 1/12xp viewport but not the 1/60xp
viewport. When the ltscale is set to 12 i can see the hidden lines on the
1/60xp view port but not the 1/12xp view port....

from what i have been seeing psltscale is not helping me.


"Dean Saadallah" <info [at] pendean [dot] com> wrote in message

 

Leave LTSCALE at 1, change PSLTSCALE to 1, go into paperspace, and type
REGENALL.

 

that is EXACTLY what I just did... no change...

 

Can you post an example in the customer files newsgroup? If so, let us
know, someone can probably take a look at it.

Matt

 

I have posted it on the customer files group.

 

Cory,

In looking at your drawing in Model Tab, I found that your LTSCALE is not uniformly
set at 1, but is set in some cases by object at other LTSCALES.

For example, in Layout 3-Gantry-3, if you look at the 3'-5" SHLDR dimension next to
the Walkway, right side of the upper viewport, you will find that it is linetype by
object (Hidden), and if you check the properties, you will find out that it's
linetype scale is set at 96.

The current linetype scale or Celtscale is set at 1.0.

Select ALL of your objects in the Model Tab and set them all to a linetype scale of
1.0, or 0.5, or 0.3, and go from there.

If you simply activate the upper viewport, make a crossing window around all the
objects, or if regular window around all the objects, right click, and open the
Properties Palette, and change the Linetype from "VARIES" to 1, you will see the
results immediately.

Also while there in Properties, scroll down to Display Lock and change it to YES.
Do this for both viewports.

Note that all the objects in the lower viewport are already set at a linetype scale
of 1.

Display Lock can also be set to yes by simply left clicking on both viewport LINES,
and then doing a Right click will present a pop-up menu and about 5 items down from
the top is Display Lock and you will see that yours are not locked. Check the YES,
and notice what happens when you zoom and pan inside the activated viewport....

Let us all know if this helps, and the problem is solved.

Jack Talsky

 

thank you very much.... I thought that there was somewhere that you could
have individual linetype scales....

 

You can, but when you made some of them 1, and others 96, you were mixing the apples
with the oranges.

When you set PSLTSCALE to 1, you are using paperspace settings, so that basically,
you are plotting 1:1, that is why you set the LTscale to 1, or a number close to 1,
like 0.5, or 1.5, or 2, or 0.3.

If you set PSLTSCALE to 0, then you must set the LTscale to be somewhere within
reason of the Scale Factor. So if you know that you are plotting at 1/8" = 1', you
would set your LTscale at 96, or some number that looks good, but is near 96, not 1.

The problem wasn't that you had individual objects set with specific object linetype
scales, but that you had mixed up the linetype scale factor between PSLTscale 1 and
0.

This is not an easy set of variables to understand. Once you play with it you will
get the idea.

Jack Talsky

 

There's one other little trick you can use to insert some variety in your drawings. Individual line type scaling can be applied to polylines. If you want a little variety, change some of your line objects to polylines and scale them individually.

The global LTscale command affects the appearance of these lines as it does every other object that isn't a continuous line type BUT you CAN tweak spacing if the lines are polylines with their own scaling factor.

One more good reason to use polylines......

 

You can use CELTSCALE on lines and arcs as well.
--
David Byrnes/Vancouver BC
AutoDesk Discussion Group Facilitator

drawings. Individual line type scaling can be applied to polylines. If you
want a little variety, change some of your line objects to polylines and
scale them individually.

does every other object that isn't a continuous line type BUT you CAN tweak
spacing if the lines are polylines with their own scaling factor.

 

Go to PSpace. Right Click on Viewport ("frame") and select "properties".
Change LTSCALE in props dialog and enter. Now go to next viewport and
repeat. If entering LTSCALE at command line, then you LTSCALE for the
"dwg" globally at 1 or 0.5 (or what have you) and you set PSLTSCALE to
be on at 1, so that vport lines will scale to their vport ltscale that
you set in the props dialog.

Ciao!
~Terry