topic Re: Custom Linetype Problem in AutoCAD Forum

Custom Linetype Problem

rhilly — Wed, 18 May 2022 16:04:05 GMT

Hello,

My custom linetype does not curve and follow an arc or circle path (see attached picture). How do I make the square with a cross look like the squares without a cross?

The linetype is made using a shape.

Thank you!!

Re: Custom Linetype Problem

pendean — Wed, 18 May 2022 16:31:40 GMT

Is the shape being used from your shapefile the box-plus-the-lines-on-either-end, or just the box? I suspect the former, not the latter. Confirm/find out for sure, and share it here too with your DWG.

Re: Custom Linetype Problem

Kent1Cooper — Wed, 18 May 2022 17:10:45 GMT

If you don't mind the diagonals not reaching fully to the corners of the squares, you could do this with a Text element in the linetype, rather than figuring out how to adjust your shape definition to not include the line extensions. There is even a choice of weight -- this is "ST" in the Wingdings 2 font:

And surely there are fonts out there, or a Unicode character or something, that have such a thing with all-the-way-to-the-corners X arms.

Re: Custom Linetype Problem

rhilly — Wed, 18 May 2022 17:12:09 GMT

Thanks for the reply. Yes, it is the former, the square with the cross has the lines attached to it.

Please find attached the DWG file.

Re: Custom Linetype Problem

rhilly — Wed, 18 May 2022 17:15:26 GMT

Interesting, I did not think of this. I am going to give it a shot. Thank you!

Re: Custom Linetype Problem

Kent1Cooper — Wed, 18 May 2022 17:52:18 GMT

So the shape does include the "wings." A shape in a linetype can't appear other than as an entirety, and can't curve or bend pieces within it. You could re-make the shape with only the X'd square; then your linetype definition would need to include pen-down segments between the shape insertions, like your GUARDRAIL linetype and the same as if a Text element is used instead.

[When you get to that, I have a suggestion to make the squares look more correct in relation to the curve. Look at the way AutoCAD's FENCELINE2 linetype is defined, and compare it to your GUARDRAIL.]