topic Re: Create linetype curtain in AutoCAD Forum

Create linetype curtain

jimschips — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 13:39:08 GMT

Hi,

I'm trying to creat a linetype for curtain ("rideau" in french) with autocad 2021.

I created a shape, introduced the shape in the .lin but it says "Wrong definition of CURTAIN at line 2".

What's wrong in my shape ?

Re: Create linetype curtain

Ed__Jobe — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 15:09:43 GMT

I don't know what you did wrong, but I redefined the shape and the linetype.

Re: Create linetype curtain

Kent1Cooper — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 17:52:48 GMT

Is it just missing a comma at the end of the first line of shape-definition code?

Re: Create linetype curtain

jimschips — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 05:51:14 GMT

Thanks.

Is it working for you ? For me it still says that the definition of the shape is wrong

Re: Create linetype curtain

jimschips — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 05:51:59 GMT

Maybe, I can't open shape file

Re: Create linetype curtain

Kent1Cooper — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 10:56:13 GMT

@jimschips wrote:

Maybe, I can't open shape file

You need to fix it in the .shp file, then COMPILE that into the .shx file [replacing the former one].

Re: Create linetype curtain

jimschips — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 13:49:11 GMT

Yes but I can't open shp and neither can I import shp in autocad

Re: Create linetype curtain

Kent1Cooper — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 16:18:50 GMT

@jimschips wrote:

Yes but I can't open shp and neither can I import shp in autocad

A plain-text editor such as Notepad won't open it? But no, AutoCAD can't use it in .shp format, but needs the .shx compiled version.

EDIT: If "can't open" means that you double-clicked on the file in a file explorer and it didn't know what program to open it with, i.e. you don't have a program assigned for opening .shp files, then either:

A) right-click on the file and choose "Open with...", or

B) assign Notepad to be that program for that file type, or

C) just start Notepad first, and in its Open function, go to the file.

Notepad can work on .shp files [in fact, you must use it or another plain-text editor, never something like a word-processing program].

Re: Create linetype curtain

Pointdump — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 14:55:30 GMT

Hi Jimmy,
Welcome to the Autodesk Forums.
Not sure what the problem is. I had no problem opening your drawing and using Rideau.lin. I only had to "load" the Rideau linetype and change the Linetype Scale to 0.01.
Dave

Re: Create linetype curtain

Kent1Cooper — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 17:00:31 GMT

Your shape also worked for me. I simplified the linetype definition:

A,0,-14,[RIDEAU,Rideau.shx],-14,0,-14,[RIDEAU,Rideau.shx],-14,0

to eliminate the overlap shown in @Pointdump s image in Message 9, and so that [it seems to me] it "sits" better in relation to overall object lengths:

But note the curved usage, and the misalignment of ends of the shape [the dashed grey is the "path" if it were not a shape-including linetype]:

That's because a shape can be used only in its entirety in one piece. If you use the linetype on curves, such as for hospital-room cubicle dividers, I would recommend defining the shape as half of the "S", and using it in the way that AutoCAD's ZIGZAG linetype does, with every other one flipped. You will get this kind of better look, closer to meeting at the ends of the shapes, on curved paths that way:

Re: Create linetype curtain

Ed__Jobe — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 14:45:41 GMT

@jimschips You are probably using the same old linetype that was loaded previously. Open the new dwg in my zip file. It has my linetype loaded. To properly use the new linetype, open a new dwg, run the LINETYPE command and load the new linetype. Then set it as the current linetype and draw a line.