Linetype Manager - Bad Linetype Definition

[Anonymous]

I have created a series of linetypes to suit an inherited drawing, and make it easier to read.

The process was, I will admit trial and error and based on an Autodesk tutorial and designed to suit the inherited drawings.

Got the linetype just the way I wanted it and saved it to where all the AutoDesk .LIN are stored, everything in one place.

The linetypes worked for 2 drawings last week.

Today I carried on with the excercise on a new drawing.

Tried to load the .lin and I get the error message

"Bad definition of ******** at line **********" ect.

I had made a Wblock of all the linetypes, with layers, last week, so inserted this in to the drawing and it worked.

can any one advise as to why last week the linetype worked, this week it doesnt. But the block does.

[steven-g · Accepted solution]

Do you have the text style "mcstyle" in your new drawings that you created last week, it would be included in the block which is why that works, but you should also add it to your template file so it will be available for future use.

[Kent1Cooper]

In addition to the fact that any Text Style called for in a linetype definition must exist in the current drawing, try adding an Enter/hard return at the end of the file.  I don't recall whether this is also true of Linetype files, but for Hatch pattern files it's necessary that the end of the file be on a blank line below  the last line of code content, not at the end of that last line.

[Anonymous]

Forgotten that little detail, Ta.