Line types not showing correctly

[Anonymous]

Hello all,

This is my first post here.

I'm getting back into AutoCad after a few years away (My last experience was with 2008, so a few years ago).

I'm trying to create some custom linetypes.

To start with it is a line with a one metre line, one metre gap, one metre line

*_Test,Test _ _ _ _ _
A, 1, -1, 1

For some reason when I draw it the line appears as 2 metre. I've checked the overall linetype scale as well as the individual linetype scale and both are set to 1.

Changing the linetype scale to 0.5 results in the correct line length.

Am I missing something?

[pendean]

How far away from "1" in your code are you after drawing the line?
Where did you come up with " 2metre" from? "appears" is not as accurate as using DIST command to find out for sure.
is your DWG file set to meters? Find out with -DWGUNITS command (there is a dash in the name)?

Can you share your DWG file with your linetype drawn in it here?

What are your settings for LTSCALE (you wrote you changed it to 0.5, is that from 1?), MSLTSCALE, PSLTSCALE, CELTSCALE and CANNOSCALE variables please?

[Anonymous]

Hello,

Thanks for the quick response. Yes I can share the file.

The various scales are set to 1.

When I change the LTscale (either overall or line specific) to 0.5 the dash then comes out at the correct length.

[Patchy]

How about:

*_Test,Test _ _ _ _ _

A, 1.0, -.5

[Anonymous]

From what I understand, this would change the space to half a metre?

My issue is that although my linetype file should create a line with a metre dash and metre space, the line is produces has a 2m dash and one metre space.

[Kent1Cooper]

The full cycle is just the dash and the gap.  Don't add another dash after the gap -- the next dash will be the beginning of the repeat of the cycle.

*_Test,Test _ _ _ _ _
A, 1, -1