New linetype
Without analyzing too closely, I notice one element missing [this may not be the only problem]:
A,.177527,-.096957,.046256,-.096957,.177527,-.004554,["FB1",PEA_Notes,y=-.052322,s=.1,u=0],-.249357
University of Virginia has the same listing:
https://www.fm.virginia.edu/docs/ges/LifeSafetyCADREquirements2018.pdf
The problem has to do with the use of Text Style "PEA_Notes"
Instead replace all occurrences with "Standard"
Also make sure the linetype definition completes and does not return to a second line.
Now use AutoCAD's LINETYPE command click on LOAD and select from the attached File UVA.LIN and you should be able to load all of the linetypes including FB1
@bthomas_tta wrote:
.... still nothing. ... still it doesn't work.
What does that mean?
Does it not offer the linetype to load from the file? If that's the problem, is the file missing the empty line at the end that is needed? Press Ctrl+End to get to the very end -- that should be an empty line below the last line of code, not at the end of the last code line.
Does it load but things given that linetype don't show that way? If so, do you see the dashes and gaps but not the text part? That could be from the Style not being present. [Actually not -- you would get a "bad definition" message when trying to Load it,] Or is the text part the wrong size? That could be from the Style having a fixed height. Or do you not see any dashes or gaps or text? That could be a matter of linetype scale.
Something else?
@bthomas_tta This is a STYLE that needs to pre-exist in your DWG file first and foremost
here is a quick tutorial for a refresh (and don't forget that missing [ noted earlier)
I also wonder where all those wacky long decimal places come from. Are they necessary? [I imagine they come from generating a linetype based on totally free-hand no-snap no-numerical-entry drawn elements, which I think is bad practice.] This simpler version works fine for me:
A,.18,-.1,.05,-.1,.18,-.005,["FB1",ATextStyleThatExistsInTheDrawing,y=-.05,s=.1,u=0],-.25
It would need to be a really specialized critical application for those additional decimal places to be needed, and it's hard to imagine what could possibly require that in a linetype.
Of course, the ideal size for that final negative number [the pen-up gap around the text part] will depend on the font used in the Style's definition, which will affect the actual size of the text inclusion.
@bthomas_tta wrote:
.... I have not been clicking Ctrl+End. ....
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by that. It would not be part of the process through the command-line creation. What I meant by it was to do that in acad.lin open for editing in Notepad, to see whether that file ends with a blank line. [I think that is mentioned somewhere in the documentation*, but I didn't find it in a quick look.] If that turns out to be the problem, the big question in my mind is how the command-create procedure doesn't complete the end of the file correctly [assuming it puts the added definition at the end].
In any case, open acad.lin in Notepad just to see whether the linetype definition itself actually got in there. If not, you can put it in yourself -- you don't need to do it by way of the -LINETYPE command.
EDIT: Another possibility: Might you have more than one acad.lin file, in different places, and might you have added the definition to one that's not the one AutoCAD is working with? At the command line, type in:
(findfile "acad.lin")
and it will tell you where the one it "sees" is located.
* [I found where that requirement is explicit for Hatch patterns. Now I'm wondering whether I just have that on the brain, and whether it's really true that it's also needed for linetypes.... In a quick trial, it seems it's not -- sorry for the wild goose chase. But do check the file for at least the presence of the linetype you tried to add, and for possibly more than one such file.]
@bthomas_tta wrote:
.... As for a second acad,lin file I will have to perform a search. ....
In the -LINETYPE / Create process, at the point where you pick acad.lin to be the file to add the definition to, it is displaying the folder location of the one you pick on. If that matches the location reported by the (findfile) function, then it's not a multiple-files issue, and there's some other problem....
@bthomas_tta wrote:
...clicked load, clicked on the UVA.lin file, and got 14 bad definition pop-ups....
Can you share that problem DWG file here?
@bthomas_tta wrote:
...the SP and SR linetypes. But, those are just dashed lines, same as the dashed lines in...
That's all the definitions are designed to do
I'm not seeing any issues using that LIN file in AutoCAD here, try the attached in your older 2000i AutoCAD
