LINETYPES NOT AVAILABLE IN AUTODESK....(now what)

[studiorat]

So i was able to rescale the Viewport and such all is well in modelspace as well,... now when opening up my layouts tabs the treelines and hedge linestyles do not appear in the viewport but are in modelspace, I have tried PSLTSCALE; AND LTSCALE, BOTH ARE SET TO 1 tried the linetype command the linetypes are in the acad set but not acadiso.lin set thats obviously because they are not acad linestyles but why do they show in modelspace? been to viewport properties as well, ............... nada what else would cause this and BTW I am running AUTODESK2004 LAND DEVELOPMENT DESK TOP CIVIL, IS THERE ANY SOLUTION FOR THIS OR DO i CALL IT QUITS!! sorry About the all caps caps lock was on .. oops
please help i am at my wits end

[SLW210]

Can you put up a screen shot or perhaps the DWG?

[studiorat]

My Dwg Is Too Big To Post 5 Mb, Any Other Suggestions I Can Try And Compress It Or Screenshot The Various Pages , How Do I Screenshot? If Need Be

[SLW210]

Print Screen, paste it and crop it in Paint, save as a JPG.

How to add images to your posts (http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=8863)

[studiorat]

Ss1 Is The Area In Modelspace
Ss 2 Is The Viewport Of Same Area (notice No Treeline )
Ss3 Is The Linetype Set Dropdown
Ss4 Is The Acadiso Menu Notice No Treeline Again

What Other Shots Could Help Ya

[SLW210]

Could the layer be frozen in the viewport?

[studiorat]

LAYERS ARE ALL ON AND ACTIVE IN PLOT AS WELL, HOWEVER LAYER 0 HAS COLOR 9 OFF UNDER THE PLOT COLUMN ONE OF MY LAYERS HIGHLIGHTED IS USING 9 AS ITS COLOR, OOps caps lock again, I do not think layer 0 affects my plot or linetypes, i have tried everything we do have a client furnished drawing, that has linetypes is there a way to import linestyles from that dwg to my updated dwg.

[rustysilo]

It would almost have to be if it shows up in ms, but not ps. I'm not sure of any other reason...

[rustysilo]

Design Center (ctrl-2)

[studiorat]

tried ctrl 2 and got a menu i was not quite sure what it was , is that the import window should i select the drawing supplied by the client and import the linetype there??

[SLW210]

Design Center (ctrl-2)

Use that to drag the linetypes into the current drawing.

If you will double click in the viewport to activate it then open the layer manager and stretch the size of the layer box, over to the right somewhere, you will see a column VP freeze. See if it is frozen in the viewport.

[studiorat]

just looked not frozen here is my window

[SLW210]

Did you try loading the linetype through Design Center?

[SLW210]

Have you tried running a Recover and/or an Audit on the drawing?

[studiorat]

yep tried it and still nothing

[SLW210]

Try stripping everything but the lines that are the problem and posting it.

[SLW210]

I need the dgnlstyle-ctdoteng40.shx.

[studiorat]

k how do I get that

[SLW210]

Should be a text font. Must be a custom.

[studiorat]

ok this should do it

[studiorat]

i am out to lunch as of now be back in 30 min

[SLW210]

It appears to be a problem with your linetype TREELN. It shows up fine as any other Linetype. Perhaps you could post the code from your .lin file for TREELN.

[studiorat]

the hedge line also in sheet 1 there is an area that contains an E M hedge design if you see that as well would ya like the code for that as well and if so i will just post it as well

[SLW210]

the hedge line also in sheet 1 there is an area that contains an E M hedge design if you see that as well would ya like the code for that as well and if so i will just post it as well

Put them up.
When you load the drawing, are you getting some .shx substitutions?

[studiorat]

i hope this is the one its the only one i had to save it as a txt to upload

[studiorat]

not sure let me reload it and watch brb

[studiorat]

i didnt see any kind of substitution error pop up

[studiorat]

they may have happened on the initial opening of the drawing yesterday, and i may have inadvertantly just ignored it!! if so how does one repair such an issue

[SLW210]

Hit the F2 key and see if it in the history.

Something like this is what I get.

Substituting [simplex.shx] for [ENGINEERING.shx].
Substituting [simplex.shx] for [verdana.shx].
Substituting [simplex.shx] for [ITALICS.shx].
Substituting [simplex.shx] for [OLEROY.shx].
Substituting [simplex.shx] for [ITALICS.shx].
Substituting [simplex.shx] for [OLEROY.shx].
Regenerating layout.
Regenerating model.
Press ENTER to continue:
AutoCAD Express Tools Copyright © 2002-2004 Autodesk, Inc.

[SLW210]

i hope this is the one its the only one i had to save it as a txt to upload

I didn't see TREELN in there, I think this may be your problem. You will need to load a similar linetype for it to show up or find the file with TREELN linetype. I would say you are missing the .shx for the linetype.

See if some of the stuff Alan gave you will be a good substitute.

[studiorat]

here is my history

[SLW210]

Looks like you are just missing the ITALICS.shx

[studiorat]

I didn't see TREELN in there, I think this may be your problem. You will need to load a similar linetype for it to show up or find the file with TREELN linetype. I would say you are missing the .shx for the linetype.

See if some of the stuff Alan gave you will be a good substitute.

i looked at the stuff alan gave me and inserted it into the acadiso.lin file its under vegetation perhaps i didnt do it correctly do you have any such objects i am not very savvy with this stuff

[studiorat]

here are my acadiso.lin file the treeline is at the end when i try to load it from design ctyr it says its already loaded

[studiorat]

here is the screenshot for the tree line properties

[studiorat]

I didn't see TREELN in there, I think this may be your problem. You will need to load a similar linetype for it to show up or find the file with TREELN linetype. I would say you are missing the .shx for the linetype.

See if some of the stuff Alan gave you will be a good substitute.



you saw the stuff alan gave me its the stuff at the end of the lin file under vegetation i am not sure how to find the shx file and reload it

[SLW210]

I finally figured it out. Your LTSCALE is to large. I set LTSCALE through properties for the lines and set them at .1 and viola..they showed up in the viewport. Due to the way they were created, the only thing showing at LTSCALE = 1 or .5 were the points. Try adjusting the LTscale or maby the Psltscale to get them to show up.

[SLW210]

Even a .1 LTSCALE is to large for some of the lines.

[SLW210]

The Line types Alan gave you work much better.

[studiorat]

.1 i thought i tried that hey you r the man i would of never gotten it did ya get it in properties in the viewport or in modelspace

[SLW210]

Either works fine. Though if doing it in the viewport you need to lock the viewport so you don't end up zooming around. Do it in Model might be easier for you.

[studiorat]

just a global type adjustment like ltscale=.1 or should I just get the line in question

[SLW210]

just a global type adjustment like ltscale=.1 or should I just get the line in question

You could try it globally if it doesn.t mess up the rest of your lines, as a matter of fact try PSLTYPE = .1 or something and see if it helps with the viewport. I didn't try it globally, you may have to play with a combo of it all. That Line Type is at a pretty large scale.

[studiorat]

I played with it for a while and found that .03 ia a good size for the trees and overgrowth in paperspace, in model space that size is just a solid line but it really would be nice if they both were the same ya know!! alans linestyles are nicer you said,.... can you post the dwg. that you have with alans lines???? i cant tell if the linetypes alan gave me are the ones I have loaded, it would appear as if they are because they live in the acad.lin set man thanx for all the help it is awesome that you gave up your time and figured out in moments what took me days thanx a million

[SLW210]

I played with it for a while and found that .03 ia a good size for the trees and overgrowth in paperspace, in model space that size is just a solid line but it really would be nice if they both were the same ya know!! alans linestyles are nicer you said,.... can you post the dwg. that you have with alans lines???? i cant tell if the linetypes alan gave me are the ones I have loaded, it would appear as if they are because they live in the acad.lin set man thanx for all the help it is awesome that you gave up your time and figured out in moments what took me days thanx a million

You are welcome for the help, sorry it took me so long to get it. :thumbsup:

Like I said you could try setting the LTSCALE to look good in Modelspace, then play with PSLTSCALE or even CELTSCALE to get the right look for your drawing in Paperspace.

If I get the time I will give it a play.