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Linetypes don't match from drawing to drawing

stanovb — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 13:52:30 GMT

I have a custom linetype that looks correct in one drawing, but when I copy and paste it into another drawing it doesn't look correct. LTscale is set to 1, MSLTscale is set to 0, & PSLTscale is set to 1 in both drawings. The drawing called PA SET is the correct one. They are both in paperspace & the linetype scale of the entity is set to 1 in both drawings..

The first drawing looks like this:

The second drawing looks like this:

Re: Linetypes don't match from drawing to drawing

Kent1Cooper — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 14:13:52 GMT

Without even opening the drawings [this same problem comes up now and then], I would bet that in one drawing, the STYLE of Text called for in the linetype definition is one that has a fixed [non-zero] height, but in the other it has zero height. Change the Style in the definition to one that will always have zero height, or change the defined height of that Style to zero.

EDIT: I have now opened the drawings. Without seeing your linetype definition, I don't know* which Style is used for its text inclusions, but the STANDARD Style has zero height in the "right" drawing, but a fixed non-zero height in the "wrong" one.

* I assume STANDARD is the one, because when I change that Style's height to 0 in the "wrong" drawing, the text parts look as expected.

Re: Linetypes don't match from drawing to drawing

stanovb — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 14:16:50 GMT

That was it. The standard text height is set to something other than 0. I was trying to find out where that linetype is defined so i could figure out what text style it is set to, but it is standard. its not in my local acad.lin file.

Re: Linetypes don't match from drawing to drawing

Kent1Cooper — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 14:37:21 GMT

@stanovb wrote:

.... I was trying to find out where that linetype is defined so i could figure out what text style it is set to, but it is standard. its not in my local acad.lin file.

Put this in at the command line:
(findfile "acad.lin")

or perhaps

(findfile "acadiso.lin")

and it will tell you where it is. Look in that same folder for additional .lin files, and open those in a plain-text editor such as Notepad to see whether they have the definition of the P2F linetype. But that may be unenlightening, since it seems obvious that it's going to have STANDARD for the Style.

If you got the drawing from some other source and don't have a linetype file that contains its definition, there are routines out there to extract linetype definitions into a file you can look at.

It's for reasons like this that I would never assign a non-zero height to the STANDARD Text Style. But it may also be advisable not to assign STANDARD Style to text inclusions in linetype definitions, but have a Style defined for the purpose that will not be affected if the definition of STANDARD Text Style gets modified. I notice one of the drawings contains a Text Style called "Linetypes" which may be meant for just that purpose.

Re: Linetypes don't match from drawing to drawing

stanovb — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 15:03:40 GMT

ok thanks. yeah, I'm not sure where that linetype came from. I was going to do a search on my network & see if it came up with something

Re: Linetypes don't match from drawing to drawing

jayhar — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 17:17:42 GMT

Similar issue i faced, Check Units are you working Metric drawings or imperial drawings? Which .dwt file are using acadiso or acad?

LTscale, MSLTscale or PSLTscale No need to change.

You Just Copy your file and Past your Previous work cad file, All Scale will be fine.

in this case different templete are used, that is the reason.

Re: Linetypes don't match from drawing to drawing

stanovb — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 16:07:38 GMT

I'm bringing this up again. lol. it appears that the linetype I had was defined within my file instead of the linetype file that I load. I found a routine that writes the definition to a text file & mimicked that.