topic Re: how to increase the dashed line type space line??? in AutoCAD Forum

how to increase the dashed line type space line???

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 11:21:17 GMT

Dear All,

how to increase the dashed line space.

example: my line type is centered or dashed lines that one shadows are not shown in the line herewith i attached the picture. if i zoom out the display that dashed line showing like a Normal line..

please anyone find the solution for this issue.

Re: how to increase the dashed line type space line???

Alfred.NESWADBA — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 12:06:34 GMT

Hi,

>> how to increase the dashed line space

You can set the entities linetype scaling to a different value (in property window)

You can set the global LTSCALE factor to a different value

You can use a different linetype (that has larger distances)

>> if i zoom out the display that dashed line showing like a Normal line.

Don't look to modelspace too much when verifying the linetype scales (I ignore the linetype display in modelspace completely). Better is to check the linetypes in a layout/a viewport as this is what get's plotted. In modelspace a lot of things look not the same as after plotting out of different reasons (e.g. performance).

- alfred -

Re: how to increase the dashed line type space line???

pendean — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 12:18:14 GMT

... DASHED linetype comes in a DASHEDX2 version with double the spacing: you can use that, or open your LIN file and modify it easily for more complex spacings like DASHEDX4 or DASHEDX10 etc.

Re: how to increase the dashed line type space line???

dbroad — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 13:08:32 GMT

It's not clear exactly what you are asking. The image shows an annotation scale of 1:1, which will only be satisfactory for small objects. You should adjust that to your plot scale. Your coordinate display shows very, very large numbers, which means that you are probably using millimeter units. If you are drawing in millimeters and using imperial linetype files, then the dashes will be about 25 times too small.

If you're asking for linetypes to dynamically scale, the model tab doesn't have that capability. If you switch to working in a layout instead, you can zoom the viewport and see a stable linetype dash size if PSLTSCALE is set to 1.

The variables that should be understood and set correctly are LTSCALE, CELTSCALE, MSLTSCALE, AND PSLTSCALE.