Linetype scaling in a viewport

[Anonymous]

I have topography x-ref'd into a base drawing.  The topo source .dwg and the base .dwg both have LTSCALE, PSLTSCALE, AND MSLTSCALE set to 1.  I can tinker with the annotation scale in model space of my base... ...do a regen...  ...and see it change.

But I want to go into a paper space viewport on a "topography" tab and keep the scale the same as other layout tab viewports...  ...but change the "grain" of the contours so that they are "tighter" (with smaller and more frequent gaps).

I thought that I would be able to highlight the viewport... ...go to the "Properties" box...  ...and change the "Annotation Scale" so that it's different from the "Standard Scale" setting...  ...but I'm not getting the result I want.  I can't seem to make the contour line segments/gaps shrink.

Why else would the "Annotation Scale" field and "Standard Scale" field be separate?

I appreciate any guidance.

[dan908]

First to answer your second question, the annotation scaling is the control for scaling based on a set viewport scale. So, you might draw your text at 0.1 units, but you always want your text to plot at 0.1, so you set the annotation scale to 1:10 for your 10 scale drawings and 1:20 for 20 scale, etc.

But, you might do something like always draw your text at 1 (because reading text at 0.1 is tough). So then you would want your drawing/ viewport scale at 1:10 and 1:20, but want your text scale at 1/10 of that... so 1:1 and 1:2.

You can use the annotative scaling for blocks, text, dimensions, and hatches. But, it does not work for linetypes. Really your best option is to use the PSLTScale (which is viewport scale dependent) and an LTscale setting that is appropriate. It should be if you have the LTSCALE correct and PSLTSCALE on and that the gaps will be different (be sure to regenall to apply the scaling to viewports). But, it cannot be controlled independently like annotation scaling.

It is a good suggestion though to make linetype gaps annotative. You could somewhat cheat it by creating two linetypes with different gap spacing and have dual lines with freezing the layers for the different pages... but that seems like a lot of work for not much reward.