WRITING AND INSERTING BLOCKS AND LINETYPES

[ESchomberg]

Dear friends,

I am still working on my template. The only thing I lack is a few linetypes of my clients that do not come standard with civil3d. I will use an example of chain link fence which is a line-X-line and so on. I opened one of his LDT template drawings...drew the fence line and typed in wblock. I stored it in a path. I then opened the new template that I am trying to tranfer it to...opened the line type dialog box and browsed my fence block(which was stored as a dwg file) when I selected it I got a message to choose a linetype. So apparently it is not recognizing the dwg file type. I am assuming it has something to do with what my friend Dave on here told me that linetypes are stored as a lin file. So how can I open his template....copy his (fence) linetype....store it and insert it into the civil3d template that I am trying to create?? Is Block, and linetype two different functions??? Any help appreciated, I hope this makes sense.

[rl_jackson]

Check out the aecland linetye file for the different fence lines. Type linetye at the command line a select load. There should be aecland.Lin. select all of them and load.

Personally I don't use the as I've rewritten them to use a font symbol vs shape. I'll upload those when I'm in front of a PC. They however relie on the standard text type to be arial

[ESchomberg]

I tried that but it doesn't give me but 2 fence types

[Pointdump]

Erik,

"Is Block, and linetype two different functions?"

Yes, completely different.

There's several ways to bring lines into a drawing.

Here's one way:

Dave

[Pointdump]

OK, here's way #2 -- Design Center. Drag-n-Drop a Linetype into your drawing:

Dave

[rl_jackson]

@ESchomberg

Attached are linetypes I use, simply copy and paste to notepad and give and save it as a xxxxx.lin.

Note: With these linetypes you must set the Text Style STANDARD to Ariel, this is my workaround to shape files, so that no matter who opens the drawing they will alway see the line as intended. This is my workaround from shape files, they just add to the nuisance of linetypes IMO, as there just another file that has to be shipped to others when you send a drawing.

I also use these within my survey figures, so I can have all my fence lines on a single layer, and the figure code determines what the linetype it is.

*BARBWIRE_1, Barbed Wire Fence with spaces
A,.5,-.03,["X",STANDARD,S=.06,R=0.0,X=-0.025,Y=-.03],-.03
*BARBWIRE_2, Barbed Wire Fence with spaces
A,.25,-.03,["X",STANDARD,S=.06,R=0.0,X=-0.025,Y=-.03],-.03
*WOOD_1, Wood Fence with spaces
A,.5,-.03,["//",STANDARD,S=.06,R=0.0,X=-0.025,Y=-.03],-.03
*WOOD_2, Wood Fence with spaces
A,.25,-.03,["//",STANDARD,S=.06,R=0.0,X=-0.025,Y=-.03],-.03
*CHAINLINK_2, Chain Link Fence with spaces
A,.25,-.03,["\U+25CB",STANDARD,S=.06,R=0.0,X=-0.025,Y=-.0225],-.03
*CHAINLINK_1, Chain Link Fence with spaces
A,.5,-.03,["\U+25CB",STANDARD,S=.06,R=0.0,X=-0.025,Y=-.0225],-.03
*VINYL_1, Vinyl Fence with spaces
A,.5,-.03,["\U+25CA",STANDARD,S=.06,R=0.0,X=-0.02,Y=-.03],-.03
*VINYL_2, Vinyl Fence with spaces
A,.25,-.03,["\U+25CA",STANDARD,S=.06,R=0.0,X=-0.02,Y=-.03],-.03
*IRON_1, Wrought Iron Fence with spaces
A,.5,-.03,["\U+25A1",STANDARD,S=.06,R=0.0,X=-0.025,Y=-.02],-.03
*IRON_2, Wrought Iron Fence with spaces
A,.25,-.03,["\U+25A1",STANDARD,S=.06,R=0.0,X=-0.025,Y=-.02],-.03
*PROPERTY_1, Property Line
A,1,-.15,["PL",STANDARD,S=.1,R=0.0,X=-0.08,Y=-.05],-.15
*PROPERTY_2, Property Line
A,.5,-.15,["PL",STANDARD,S=.1,R=0.0,X=-0.05,Y=-.05],-.15
*PROPERTY_X2, Property Line
A,2,-.15,["PL",STANDARD,S=.1,R=0.0,X=-0.08,Y=-.05],-.15
*GAURDRAIL_1, Gaurdrail with Post
A,0,["\U+25CB",STANDARD,S=.06,R=0.0,X=-0.025,Y=-.0425],1,["\U+25CB",STANDARD,S=.06,R=0.0,X=-0.025,Y=-.0425]
*GAURDRAIL_2, Gaurdrail with Post
A,0,["\U+25CB",STANDARD,S=.06,R=0.0,X=-0.025,Y=-.0425],.5,["\U+25CB",STANDARD,S=.06,R=0.0,X=-0.025,Y=-.0425]
*LIMITED_ACCESS_1, Limited Access Line
A,1.75,-.08,["\\\",STANDARD,S=.10,R=0.0,X=-0.06,Y=-.05],-.08

[Joe-Bouza]

Modify and add what you want. It like morse code ; pen up pen down text character acad.lin file and google should get you understanding in short order