topic Re: LTS XREF in AutoCAD Forum

LTS XREF

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 17:04:48 GMT

When I change the lts of my working drawing, the xref's are being affected to. How can I keep the xrefs from changing when I change my working drawing lts? My xref's are overlay and bind. Thanks

Re: LTS XREF

Alfred.NESWADBA — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 17:42:31 GMT

Hi,

what is "LTS"?

>> the xref's are being affected to

Effected in wich way?

- alfred -

Re: LTS XREF

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 20:43:03 GMT

Line type scale. When I change the line type scale in my working drawing, I don't want my xref aspects to change their line type scale.

Re: LTS XREF

paullimapa — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 22:07:23 GMT

If you use ltscale or psltscale to change your linetype scales then they'll also affect the xrefs.

Re: LTS XREF

Anonymous — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 23:36:10 GMT

Thank you. I was hoping there was a way to lock the xref because I use fabrication CADmep and for the dashed lines to look as they need, I set lts to .3 which messes up the xref. To fix the xrefs, I have to open the x files and set the a 40.

Re: LTS XREF

paullimapa — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 23:43:22 GMT

An option could be to create a pdf from the xref dwg and then instead of attaching the dwg, you'll attached the pdf. Then the ltscale/psltscale commands will have no effect on the attached pdf linetype.

Re: LTS XREF

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:25:31 GMT

That sounds like a good work around. Thank you

Re: LTS XREF

paullimapa — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:26:34 GMT

u r welcome... cheers!!!!

Re: LTS XREF

Alfred.NESWADBA — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 00:43:57 GMT

Hi,

>> create a pdf from the xref dwg and then instead of attaching the dwg

I would prefer to create a DWF instead of a PDF as this is faster when used as reference.

Generally I don't understand why LTSCALE is a problem when an XRef is used. As long as you have set MSLTSCALE and PSLTSCALE to 1 then independent from the viewport-scale the linetype scaling should be correct for plot and, if necessary, after _REGENALL.

- alfred -

Re: LTS XREF

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 01:02:54 GMT

Are you saying that if I change my model space to .1, when I go to print out my drawing from paper space, the X reference lines are not going to be affected?

Re: LTS XREF

Alfred.NESWADBA — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 01:12:18 GMT

Hi,

>> Are you saying that if I change my model space to .1

Not clear what you mean by "change model space to 1"

The settings MSLTSCALE has the meaning if the linetype scaling is controlled by the annotation scale (when modelspace is active)

PSLTSCALE (meant for viewports and layout) set to 1 means that the linetype scaling is automatically calculated in distance of paper, independent from the viewport scale. E.g. if your linetype is defined as 3 units line, 3 units space then this line will show itself (on layout and on plot) in the distance 3/3 in case the viewport scale is 1:1 or 2:1 or 1:2 or ... it does not matter.

When PSLTSCALE is set to 0 then the viewport scale controls the linetype scale, so a viewport 1:1 shows the line 3/3 whereas a viewport 1:2 shows the linetype scale as 1.5/1.5 (paper units).

>>>here<<< is some more description (besides of the help content).

HTH, - alfred -