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Create a linetype with diamond

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 17:14:10 GMT

I'm trying to create a linetype like this one at the bottom

Is it even possible? I only get long dash short dashed lines from this.

I've followed this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9frj83w68M

The content in the .lin -file (attatched) reads: A,.12,-.039729,.08,-.04

Re: Create a linetype with diamond

Alfred.NESWADBA — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 17:17:50 GMT

Hi,

to create the diamond part within a linetype you need to create a symbol and use that symbol in your linetype.

Creating symbols (shape ==> shx): >>>click<<<

Creating linetypes with symbols: >>>click<<<

- alfred -

Re: Create a linetype with diamond

Kent1Cooper — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 19:11:32 GMT

You could do the same with a text character. Several symbol fonts contain characters that are squares, and you could put one in rotated 45 degrees, with a coinciding line portion. It could take some care in fine-tuning the positioning and scale, but it might be easier than defining a Shape for it with the necessary Shape file to contain it.

Re: Create a linetype with diamond

Anonymous — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 21:11:50 GMT

Found this:

Character Name Hex Dec

⧅ bsolb 029C5 10693

Could I use this and rotate?

Should I use the symbol or the Hex-code?

Re: Create a linetype with diamond

WarrenGeissler — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 23:59:00 GMT

As @Kent1Cooper said - you need to find a font that has that symbol defined:

*Symbol,Symbol
A,2,-1,["\U+29C5",standard,y=-0.76,x=-0.0,s=1.5,r=45],-1.5

Where "Standard" text style has a font of "@Malgun Gothic"