Same Linetype & Scale but Different Appearance?

Hi all,

I have two drawings using the same linetypes and linetype scales but plines
appear much with much larger spacing for dashed or hidden lines. Why?

Simon.

 

Check to make sure that none of the linetype scales for the individual lines have been modified/overridden. If a line has had it's LTS overridden to be say 0.5 then it would display smaller than one with LTS set to 1 even with the same drawing LTS.

Hope that helps or is at least a start.

 

make sure ltscale and psltscale are both set the same in each drawing. Also
check the viewports to make sure psltscale has not changed. You can change
each view ports psltscale setting

lines have been modified/overridden. If a line has had it's LTS overridden
to be say 0.5 then it would display smaller than one with LTS set to 1 even
with the same drawing LTS.

 

If that doesnt work try this.......

There are two line type definition files.
acad.lin for imperial users and
acadiso.lin for metric users.
Then type LT to open the linetype manager and load all the linetypes from the appropriate file, say 'yes to all' replace existing linetypes, then purge out the ones that you dont use.
Do this in both drawings and they will look the same.

 

In addition to looking at all of the other suggestions, check to see if the
PLINEGEN setting is the same in both drawings, and that the LTgen setting
(PEDIT subcommand) is the same in all of the polylines. I suspect the
problem lies here, if polylines are the only objects affected.
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Thanks everyone for your help Wookie's suggestion alleviated the problem.
I must have had imperial lines loaded in some metric dwgs but not in the
xrefs. But unfortunately, loading the "proper" .lin file adversly affects
the currently nice dash scale of a significant number of A-FLOR-ABOV
lines/plines, i.e. they get huuuge.

Since I want to keep the look of the current lines, I guess the best
(long-term) solution to add this "new" line type into the acadiso.lin? Is it
possible both imp and metric can be loaded at once?

Also, apart from reloading the .lin files, is there another way to I confirm
which .lin file is loaded?


Simon.

 

Linetypes are loaded individually so yes, you can have one linetype loaded
from the acad.lin file and another linetype from the acadiso.lin and another
from a custom.lin file in one drawing. The limitation is that they cannot
have the same name (can't have two different linetypes with same name loaded
in one drawing.)

Another option is to apply a linetype scale directly to the object that you
want to look different. (Note that this scale is multiplied by the drawings
ltscale) To do this, select the object, and then using the properties
dialog box, change the LinetypeScale.

Casey

 

PSLTSCALE has only two settings: 0 and 1

Command: PLSTSCALE

Type: Integer
Saved in: Drawing
Initial value: 1

Controls paper space linetype scaling.


0 No special linetype scaling. Linetype dash lengths are based on the
drawing units of the space (model or paper) in which the objects were
created. Scaled by the global LTSCALE factor.

1 Viewport scaling governs linetype scaling. If TILEMODE is set to 0, dash
lengths are based on paper space drawing units, even for objects in model
space. In this mode, viewports can have varying magnifications, yet display
linetypes identically. For a specific linetype, the dash lengths of a line
in a viewport are the same as the dash lengths of a line in paper space. You
can still control the dash lengths with LTSCALE.


When you change PSLTSCALE or use a command such as ZOOM with PSLTSCALE set
to 1, objects in viewports are not automatically regenerated with the new
linetype scale. Use the REGEN or REGENALL commands to update the linetype
scales in each viewport.