Dashed line scaling appear different in Model and Viewport Layout

[jtakag]

New to Civil 3d and having an issue with dashed lines... I've got a layer styled with a Dashed line and it appears at an appropriate scale in Model view, however, when I create a Viewport in Layout view, the same Dashed line appears huge. I'm probably missing something obvious! 

Any help would be much appreciated.

[user181]

Make sure the annotative scale of your model space and your viewport are the same. Also set the following variables

MSLTSCALE = 1

LTSCALE = 1

PSLTSCALE = 1

regenall after

[MMcCall402]

Also check your page setup in layout view.  There is a section for setting the unit relationship from model space to layout.

[rl_jackson]

Select the viewport in Paperspace and make sure that Annotation Scale and Standard Scale are equal in the Properties 

[jtakag]

Thanks for all of your input, but still not having any luck... Ive tried all of the suggested solutions...

• MSLTSCALE, LTSCALE and PSLTSCALE value are all 1. 
• Page setup Plot Scale is 1"=1' / 1 inches = 1 unit.
• Annotation Scale and Standard Scale are equal in Viewport Properties - both are 1" = 100'

If I adjust LTSCALE to .5, the dashed line does become tighter, but I would like to understand how to control while keeping the LTSCALE at 1 - as suggested. Perhaps this is solution, but it doesn't make total sense to me...

Thanks in advance!

[jroot]

Is this a polyline or a Profile that is controlled by a style?

If it is a polyline, check to see if there is a vport override of the linetype inside the viewport.

[rl_jackson · Accepted solution]

If you want to change the way the linetype looks that is completely doable. Below are the definitions for the Dashed linetype from the ACAD.LIN file if I want to make a new linetype from DASHED and make the dash repeat more or less often, then you just change the value after A,........ this is the value that determines how long the dash segment is and the second value determines the gap size between the dash and the next dash

*DASHED,Dashed __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ _
A,.5,-.25
*DASHED2,Dashed (.5x) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
A,.25,-.125
*DASHEDX2,Dashed (2x) ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ___
A,1.0,-.5

HTH

PS: The ACAD.LIN file is a standard text file that can be opened in Notepad.

[jtakag]

Thanks for the suggestion @jroot... It is a Profile that is controlled by a style. I removed Viewport Overrides for All Layers but still no change. Here is the style associated with the Profile:

[jroot · Accepted solution]

I know there is more than one way to do it but we set the linetype and color for the Profile right in the Style instead of "ByLayer".  You could try setting it there and it should force the lines to hold linetype from Model to Paperspace.

[jtakag]

Thank you all for your thoughtful feedback. As mentioned, there are a bunch of ways to do this and I've had luck taking a number of approaches - with the current approach being a new dashed line type in the acad.lin file. Fun because I got to poke around in the style sheet. The ByLayer command also works well and I think I'll have to see which approach makes the most sense as the project processes. Thanks again!