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Dashed line scaling appear different in Model and Viewport Layout

jtakag — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:05:14 GMT

New to Civil 3d and having an issue with dashed lines... I've got a layer styled with a Dashed line and it appears at an appropriate scale in Model view, however, when I create a Viewport in Layout view, the same Dashed line appears huge. I'm probably missing something obvious!

Any help would be much appreciated.

Re: Dashed line scaling appear different in Model and Viewport Layout

user181 — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:16:30 GMT

Make sure the annotative scale of your model space and your viewport are the same. Also set the following variables

MSLTSCALE = 1

LTSCALE = 1

PSLTSCALE = 1

regenall after

Re: Dashed line scaling appear different in Model and Viewport Layout

MMcCall402 — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 19:20:44 GMT

Also check your page setup in layout view. There is a section for setting the unit relationship from model space to layout.

Re: Dashed line scaling appear different in Model and Viewport Layout

rl_jackson — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 02:26:39 GMT

Select the viewport in Paperspace and make sure that Annotation Scale and Standard Scale are equal in the Properties

Re: Dashed line scaling appear different in Model and Viewport Layout

jtakag — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 15:54:13 GMT

Thanks for all of your input, but still not having any luck... Ive tried all of the suggested solutions...

MSLTSCALE, LTSCALE and PSLTSCALE value are all 1.
Page setup Plot Scale is 1"=1' / 1 inches = 1 unit.
Annotation Scale and Standard Scale are equal in Viewport Properties - both are 1" = 100'

If I adjust LTSCALE to .5, the dashed line does become tighter, but I would like to understand how to control while keeping the LTSCALE at 1 - as suggested. Perhaps this is solution, but it doesn't make total sense to me...

Thanks in advance!

Re: Dashed line scaling appear different in Model and Viewport Layout

jroot — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 15:59:38 GMT

Is this a polyline or a Profile that is controlled by a style?

If it is a polyline, check to see if there is a vport override of the linetype inside the viewport.

Re: Dashed line scaling appear different in Model and Viewport Layout

rl_jackson — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 16:12:22 GMT

If you want to change the way the linetype looks that is completely doable. Below are the definitions for the Dashed linetype from the ACAD.LIN file if I want to make a new linetype from DASHED and make the dash repeat more or less often, then you just change the value after A,........ this is the value that determines how long the dash segment is and the second value determines the gap size between the dash and the next dash

*DASHED,Dashed __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ _
A,.5,-.25
*DASHED2,Dashed (.5x) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
A,.25,-.125
*DASHEDX2,Dashed (2x) ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ___
A,1.0,-.5

HTH

PS: The ACAD.LIN file is a standard text file that can be opened in Notepad.

Re: Dashed line scaling appear different in Model and Viewport Layout

jtakag — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 16:20:14 GMT

Thanks for the suggestion @jroot... It is a Profile that is controlled by a style. I removed Viewport Overrides for All Layers but still no change. Here is the style associated with the Profile:

Re: Dashed line scaling appear different in Model and Viewport Layout

jroot — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 16:29:15 GMT

I know there is more than one way to do it but we set the linetype and color for the Profile right in the Style instead of "ByLayer". You could try setting it there and it should force the lines to hold linetype from Model to Paperspace.

Re: Dashed line scaling appear different in Model and Viewport Layout

jtakag — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 22:38:01 GMT

Thank you all for your thoughtful feedback. As mentioned, there are a bunch of ways to do this and I've had luck taking a number of approaches - with the current approach being a new dashed line type in the acad.lin file. Fun because I got to poke around in the style sheet. The ByLayer command also works well and I think I'll have to see which approach makes the most sense as the project processes. Thanks again!