topic Re: Scaling a line weight in a viewport in AutoCAD for Mac Forum

Scaling a line weight in a viewport

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 17:45:37 GMT

Hello,

In my walls I use a BATT Linetype to designate insulation and in model space I scale the BATT line according to wall thickness. I set up viewports in my drawing tabs (paper space) and depending on the scale of of the viewport need to adjust the scale of the BATT line to suite that viewport scale. This becomes a problem when I have several viewports of different scales, as I don't seem to be able adjust the scale of my BATT line for each differently scaled viewport without it changing and being the wrong scale in the other viewports. Is there a way line weight scales can be set differently for each viewport?

Re: Scaling a line weight in a viewport

pendean — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 18:40:58 GMT

The batting linetype is a POS.

If you find manually changing it to suit your viewports to be painful, use a PLINE object type instead, like this, IF you are not running the LT version of AutoCAD https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/visual-lisp-autolisp-and-general/batting/m-p/2343682#M267177 or this https://cadtips.cadalyst.com/curved-objects/create-batting-line-polyline or https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/dynamic-blocks-forum/insulation-block/m-p/7958259#M26251

if you are stuck in the LT version,or that LISP is not an option for you, try this https://cadtips.cadalyst.com/dynamic-blocks/place-insulation-using-a-dynamic-block or this https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/dynamic-blocks-forum/insulation-block/m-p/7246526#M23626

Re: Scaling a line weight in a viewport

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 21:55:21 GMT

Thanks very much for this. I'm using LT these days, so sadly a bunch of my LISP routines no longer work. Thanks for the link to the dynamic block - I keep forgetting about those.