topic Re: line type with soild arrow in Visual LISP, AutoLISP and General Customization Forum

line type with soild arrow

muhamed_ragab92 — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 14:56:23 GMT

i want to make line type contain with soild arrow as attached photo

can i control on the length of soild arrow or direction of it?

Re: line type with soild arrow

pendean — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 15:13:04 GMT

Like this old tip perhaps https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/solid-fill-in-linetypes/m-p/1650067#M529727
Another option https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-land-desktop-read-only/linetype-with-arrows/m-p/1558256#M44981

Re: line type with soild arrow

DRW_CAD — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 17:10:40 GMT

You can also make a linetype using text & Wingding is a standard windows font & is all symbols and has arrow heads.

These are some erosion & sediment control linetypes I created. You can tweak the contents to get different arrow heads. Copy & paste into notepad & name with a .lin extensions and create the WINGDING & WINGDING3 text styles they reference in your drawing and map them to the TT fonts of the same name.

*R-SUB-SURF-DRAIN,Right Sub-Surface drain arrow
A,.5,-.2,["à",WINGDING,S=.15,R=0.0,X=-0.1,Y=-.07],-.2

*L-SUB-SURF-DRAIN,Left Sub-Surface drain arrow
A,.5,-.2,["ß",WINGDING,S=.15,R=0.0,X=-0.1,Y=-.07],-.2

*R-SUB-SURF-DRAIN2,Right Sub-Surface drain arrow
A,.25,-.01,["à",WINGDING,S=.15,R=0.0,X=0,Y=-.066],-.2

*L-SUB-SURF-DRAIN2,Left Sub-Surface drain arrow
A,.25,-.01,["ß",WINGDING,S=.15,R=0.0,X=0.01,Y=-.066],-.2

*R-DIVERSION,Right Diversion Flow
A,1,.001,["†",WINGDING3,S=.2,R=0.0,X=-0.1,Y=-.1],0

*L-DIVERSION,Left Diversion Flow
A,1,.001,["…",WINGDING3,S=.2,R=0.0,X=-0.1,Y=-.1],0

Re: line type with soild arrow

DRW_CAD — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 17:12:34 GMT

Here is what they look like in dwg:

Re: line type with soild arrow

muhamed_ragab92 — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 23:49:00 GMT

I don't get what you mean about the winding & winding3 text style

Can you explain it for me or show me tutorial for it

Thanks

Re: line type with soild arrow

Sea-Haven — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 02:54:41 GMT

The windows built in fonts include Winding which is like lots of little symbols. Type A and get A

ASDFGHIJKLZXCVBNM

You need to understand how to get at extended fonts some times. In windows fonts can look at the characters so for say Arial

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Re: line type with soild arrow

muhamed_ragab92 — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 11:23:51 GMT

that's the result from notepad @DRW_CAD @Sea-Haven

Re: line type with soild arrow

DRW_CAD — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 14:38:41 GMT

to avoid that error, you need the text styles. AutoCAD doesn't reference fonts dir. type ST create a style named exactly as they are in the lineype definition and map them to the associated TT font. My example is confusing because I used the same name for the AutoCAD style as the font itself. But where my line type has winding in it, it's looking for an AutoCAD text style of that name.

Re: line type with soild arrow

muhamed_ragab92 — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 18:34:56 GMT

Can you send me a autocad plan for that line type ?

Re: line type with soild arrow

Sea-Haven — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 00:27:38 GMT

Make a textstyle Windings

Re: line type with soild arrow

Kent1Cooper — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 12:50:41 GMT

@Sea-Haven wrote:

The windows built in fonts include Winding which is like lots of little symbols. ....

Careful of the spelling -- the name of the font is WINGDINGS [and there are some others with number suffixes added], but in various Messages here it has been spelled in various incorrect ways. But it doesn't really matter what you call the Style to which you assign a font [you can call it MickeyMouse if you want], as long as you use the same spelling of the Style name in the linetype definition, and as long as the Style called for in the linetype definition exists in the drawing.

Re: line type with soild arrow

DRW_CAD — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 10:42:56 GMT

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad-lt/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2019/ENU/AutoCAD-LT/files/GUID-FEDCE7EB-4919-43AE-A54E-F3A293DD60CA-htm.html

Re: line type with soild arrow

TomBeauford — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 14:07:53 GMT

I have a collection of linetype files including wingdings.lin saved in the Roamable Support Folder:

*LINE_dia,LINE_dia ---\_/---\_/--- A,3,-1,["t",WINGDINGS,S=1,Y=-0.45],-1.75 *Line_Arrow,Line Arrow --- ---> ---- ---> -- A,3,-1,["\U+00E8",WINGDINGS,S=1,X=-0.3,Y=-0.45],-2 ;A,3,-1,["è",WINGDINGS,S=1,X=-0.3,Y=-0.45],-2 *Big_Dot,Big Dots --- O --- O ---- O --- O -- A,3,-1,["l",WINGDINGS,S=1,Y=-0.45],-2 *Big_D-Dot,Big Dash Dot --- O --- O ---- O --- O -- S,.001,["_",Arial,S=2,X=0.09,Y=0.46],-2.2,["l",WINGDINGS,S=1,Y=-0.45],-3.2,["_",Arial,S=2,X=-1.55,Y=0.46] *Four_Square,Four_Square --- <> --- <> ---- A,3,-1,["v",WINGDINGS,S=1,Y=-0.45],-2 *Hedge,Hedge A,.01,-1,["|",WINGDINGS,S=1,Y=-0.45],-.2 *Square,Square --- [] --- [] ---- A,3,-1,["n",WINGDINGS,S=1,Y=-0.45],-2 *Danger, --- DANGER --- DANGER ---- A,.3,["N",WINGDINGS,S=.05,Y=-.025],-.05,["DANGER",Swiss Light,S=.05,Y=-.025],-.29,["N",WINGDINGS,S=.05,Y=-.025],-.05,.1

By saving them in the same folder as my default Acad.lin file they're easily accessible from the load lintypes dialog box.

You have to make sure the WINGDINGS text style is defined in the drawing for them to work.

Re: line type with soild arrow

Amriya_Exe — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 09:26:54 GMT

Shows bad definition.

Re: line type with soild arrow

Kent1Cooper — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 10:26:31 GMT

@Amriya_Exe wrote:

Shows bad definition.

That usually means there is no Text Style name in the drawing with the same name as the Style called for in the linetype definition. See Message 11.