Dashed insulation line

[qfanatiq]

I thought I had one of these, or had done this before. But I cant for the life of me figure this out.

Can anyoen help?

Cheers......Q

[pendean]

Are you wanting a hatch pattern? or help drawing a dashed line?

[qfanatiq]

h, wonderful sarcasm.

I want to pick the insualtion line style (batting) and make that dashed but still shown as batting.

I shoudl have used the right term!

Cheers......Q

[hwalker]

Don't think you can do that with the batting line

[qfanatiq]

I am pretty confident I had one many years back but then, perhaps I imagine it. I might have created it myself or somethgin sinmilare. I am very out of touch with AutoCAD.

Q

[Charles_Shade]

You likely had a custom Linetype that has been lost over the years.

Back to the first query: Are you interested in recreating the Linetype?

[pendean]

INSUL is an OOTB hatch pattern that looks like what you describe. Is that perhaps what you used back in the day?

Again though, no sarcasm intended, do you just want to call your dashed line type BATTING? Open ACADLT.LIN file, make a copy of the dashed linetype entry you like, paste at the bottom of the list, change the name to whatever you want, if you choose BATTING remember to go up the list and change the original to something else.

[qfanatiq]

YEs, very interested in recreating. I need to get back up to speed with what used to be common practise. I was out or the AutoCad game for a good few years and clearly, I am someone that needs constant hands on. I feel like a numpty all to often.

I will google it. Best learn by practise and my own research and hands on!

Thanks guys!
Q

[qfanatiq]

PD, I am happy with sarcasm if i get some kind of reply that leads to an answer/solution. It keeps me going.

Cheers., things I need to look at.

Q

[Bob_Zurunkle]

OP here's the downside. If you are using that Batting linetype in multiple scaled viewports, the program will try to adjust its scale  to fit the viewport scale. That means, what looked perfect in one will be really tiny in another and really huge in yet another.

You may want to consider making a custom hatch that does it. I did one years ago (can't find it now) that at a scale of 1 would be correct at 1" cavity width. So to fill a 3 1/2" cavity I would scale it at 3.5. To look its best means adjusting the origin point and orientation of each hatch, but the results didn't go all screwy across multiple viewports. You simply have it on a certain layer that is frozen in the viewports where it is not appropriate to be showing the batting. Mine looked like the squiggly batt symbol all the way to 600 feet long before starting to "fall apart" noticeably. Sorry I can't find it, but it is doable and it looks just like the linetype, curves and all (even if it is made up of tiny straight line segments)!