topic Re: Asphalt / Edge of Pavement Linetype in AutoCAD Forum

Asphalt / Edge of Pavement Linetype

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 18:07:50 GMT

Does anyone have an Asphalt/Edge of Pavement linetype similar to this one they could share with me?

I could make my own, yes, but I'd rather try to grab something in standard use.

Re: Asphalt / Edge of Pavement Linetype

rkmcswain — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 18:21:50 GMT

Someone was looking for the same thing, 5 years ago.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-civil-3d-forum/custom-line-type/td-p/3382269

See this also:
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/linetypes/td-p/6022875

Re: Asphalt / Edge of Pavement Linetype

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 18:46:21 GMT

Yes but no one posted a .lin & .shp

They both get responses of how to make it from scratch.

Exactly how big to you make the ticks? What's the spacing? What's the patterning?

I'd rather not eyeball these things and make it from scratch. I was hoping someone could share one that was in common use.

Re: Asphalt / Edge of Pavement Linetype

rkmcswain — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 19:21:58 GMT

The linetype posted in post 1, here: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/linetypes/m-p/6022875#M111722

....works for me. I changed the ".06" up front to ".25" for a little more spacing between the slashes.

Re: Asphalt / Edge of Pavement Linetype

gotphish001 — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 20:26:42 GMT

Here's my linetype file that I've put together. There are definitely a few in there that should be what you are looking for. Easiest way is to find the linetype you like then just copy and paste it into your drawing. Then it's in there for you to add to a layer. I do it this way because they all have crazy names. That is why I just put a little sample line of each type in the dwg. That way it's easy to pick one that I need just by the look of it. Much more work to change the names to things that make sense.

I recently organized it a little bit. I put all the linetypes that are double lines and single line under headers, so you can tell which are double lines. Also started putting all the lines with text in them under a header. I think I noticed a few I missed though.

Re: Asphalt / Edge of Pavement Linetype

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 12:01:08 GMT

These are very useful. Still not the EOP line I was looking for, but very useful.

I'd be interested in seeing the .lin and .shp files associated with some of these.

Are shapes used to create the double lines?

How'd you get shapes at just the ends and beginnings of lines and not part of repeating pattern?

Re: Asphalt / Edge of Pavement Linetype

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 16:29:56 GMT

@gotphish001 I know I'm the 6th millionth person to bother you about this, but is there any chance you can break down how you were able to do the double and triple line linetypes? I've searched everywhere and tried everything to get them to work like yours and all I get is messy, blocky garbage.

Re: Asphalt / Edge of Pavement Linetype

gotphish001 — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:14:10 GMT

We don't use too many crazy line types where I work. Most of the more bizarre ones in that file I've scavenged from consultants drawings just to create a sort of collection as a hobby. Mostly from civil guys as it seems they love to make linetypes. If I need something odd occasionally, I can usually find something close enough in this file. It's faster and easier than making a new one from scratch. Although some of the ltscales are crazy in that file and I'll need to override it in properties to get it to show up correctly. Sometimes .000001 or other ridiculous scales

The included lisp pulls all the linetype .lin files out of the drawing you run it on. You could run it on the linetype file I had attached above and look at the linetype file you are interested in. It might give you some in site on how they are created. I know a few of them are a mystery how they were made even to a few people much smarter than me at autocad. I haven't used that lisp in a long time, but if I remember right it puts all the .lin files in one file so you need to look through the names to find the matching one. I think it also puts the file in your documents folder.

Sorry I'm not much help on the "how" to make them. I grabbed a few I thought were neat out of a drawing once and it kind of snowballed from there. I've made linetypes but none as complex from scratch as you are talking about.

Re: Asphalt / Edge of Pavement Linetype

gotphish001 — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:09:11 GMT

Forgot that you can't attach .vlx files to this forum. I had to change it and add .dwg to the end. After you download it, in windows explorer, go to the right click properties of that file, on the general tab it has the name of the file with the extensions and just delete the .dwg I added. It should work after that.

Re: Asphalt / Edge of Pavement Linetype

gotphish001 — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:18:50 GMT

@Kent1Cooper Were you the one that was trying to figure out how the linetype with the arrows only at the ends was made? You are much wiser than me at linetypes. Do you have any advice for @Anonymous on how to make the double linetypes that are more complex in my linetype file?

Re: Asphalt / Edge of Pavement Linetype

jggerth — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 19:33:39 GMT

As a guess, the funkier linetypes in your file were originally imported from uStn DGN drawings, and there's not a 'native' way to do them with acad .lin linetype definitions. (I'd be happy to be proven wrong though,,,)

Re: Asphalt / Edge of Pavement Linetype

Kent1Cooper — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 20:10:56 GMT

@gotphish001 wrote:

@Kent1Cooper Were you the one that was trying to figure out how the linetype with the arrows only at the ends was made? .... Do you have any advice for @Anonymous ...?

I was. Those in your "Many Line Types" drawing are not standard AutoCAD linetypes (though they "work" in AutoCAD), but I think must come out of some overlay program with a special capability. I tried a utility that extracts a linetype definition from one loaded in a drawing, but it didn't succeed. Copying/pasting into another drawing, and then matching properties, seems to be the only way to use them in plain AutoCAD. I'd love to know myself how they're defined [so as to be able to make variants on them], and/or why they're usable at all without the overlay program they come from, but so far....

Re: Asphalt / Edge of Pavement Linetype

dbroad — Wed, 11 Jul 2018 20:28:04 GMT

I believe that many if not most of the linetypes in the many_linetypes file provided by @gotphish001 are actually imported from DGN files and are not actually AutoCAD linetypes. They essentially have no .LIN type content and are created as a ACAD_DGNLINESTYLECOMP library. Each DGN linetype is managed by extension dictionaries and were originally the result of using DGNIMPORT. These types of linetypes can really blow up your file size. Note that the file itself is 1.3MB and contains only a few hundred lines. In the code box is an excerpt of the LIN definitions for a few of them. Note that there is no content after the A. All of the implementation is done via the DGN import mechanism. Even the line types that have some content after the A defer the actual geometry to the extension dictionary mechanisms and anonymous blocks.

*0,DGN 0, AutoCAD Continuous
A,1,0,1
 
*rw-Common_C3D,rw-Common
A,8,-1.25
 
*tr-lighting-x_C3D,tr-lighting-x
A,6,-1.5
 
*tr-ohl-p_C3D,tr-ohl-p
A
 
*ph-GNV_C3D,ph-GNV
A,12,-0.75
 
*tr-signal-x_C3D,tr-signal-x
A,5.25,-0.75,1.5,-0.75
 
*tr-tele-p_C3D,tr-tele-p
A
 
*tr-tele-x_C3D,tr-tele-x
A
 
*tr-term-x_C3D,tr-term-x
A
 
*ut-elec-p_C3D,ut-elec-p
A
 
*ut-elec-x_C3D,ut-elec-x
A
 
*ut-gas-p_C3D,ut-gas-p
A
 
*ut-gas-x_C3D,ut-gas-x
A
 
*ut-natgas-p_C3D,ut-natgas-p
A
 
*ut-natgas-x_C3D,ut-natgas-x
A
 
*ut-oil-p_C3D,ut-oil-p
A
 
*ut-oil-x_C3D,ut-oil-x
A

Re: Asphalt / Edge of Pavement Linetype

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:16:54 GMT

Man, I knew it was too good to be true that you could do those kinds of things in CAD. Thanks for everyone's help getting to the bottom of that.

Re: Asphalt / Edge of Pavement Linetype

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 18:45:14 GMT

Those types might very well have been imported, but I believe you could recreate similar types, double lines etc, with shape files.

Re: Asphalt / Edge of Pavement Linetype

ptatohed — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 20:02:36 GMT

Sorry to bump an old thread but did the OP ever get an EOP linetype?

Re: Asphalt / Edge of Pavement Linetype

R_Tweed — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 22:00:22 GMT

I did not see anywhere that someone shared those files. I made existing, new and demo linetypes along with the shape file that were modeled after la county guidelines and work with imperial civil scales. There a couple of others in the file that you can either disregard or use.

Re: Asphalt / Edge of Pavement Linetype

ptatohed — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 23:42:03 GMT

aveng, it is absolutely perfect! Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks so much! Happy New Year!

Re: Asphalt / Edge of Pavement Linetype

Chris-Apex — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 00:11:03 GMT

I put this EOP linetype together - hopefully it'll help you or whoever else may be looking for one.

*EOP,EOP ___///____///____///____
A,.1,["|",TXT,S=.2,R=325],.1,["|",TXT,S=.45,R=325],.1,["|",TXT,S=.2,R=325],3

My drawings use an LTSCALE of 15 so you may need to make adjustments depending on your LTSCALE and the desired spacing of the symbols.

You can also easily change the angle of the "crows feet" by editing the R=XXX number.

Re: Asphalt / Edge of Pavement Linetype

davidurbanpe — Tue, 11 May 2021 18:29:31 GMT

I created on similar

*ASPHALT PVMT,2PC Existing PAVING
A,0.1,["/",ARIAL,s=.02,x=-.0,y=.006],.02,["/",ARIAL,s=.03,x=-.0,y=.009],.02,["/",ARIAL,s=.02,x=-.0,y=.006],.5

Works well at 20 or 30 scale