Ltscale 1, Psltscale 1 - Batting.

[LCE]

OK, here I am thinking great, issuing new standards, set PS/LTSCALE to 1, think its great, and then BATTING bites me on the bottom....

Does anyone else work with PS/LTSCALE both set as 1, if you do, how have you overcome the batting problem?
I am writing up some scaled batting linetypes for 100mm at 1:100, etc, but wondered if there is something simple that I am not thinking of.

Cheers

[LCE]

Any ideas guys?
I love the concept of PS/LTSCALE both as 1. but this batting is proving to be a real stumbling block...

[halfcracked]

Try setting msltscale to 1

[LCE]

MSLTSCALE is 1. What effect were you expecting that to have?

So does this mean no one has come across this problem before? Surely someone works with LTSCALE and PSLTSCALE both set to 1...

[NBC]

why would you want to show a BATTING line that is 100mm long (in modelspace i presume) at a scale of 1:100 - surely this would give a line length of 1mm in paperspace ?
any line of 1mm length will not display it's linetype adequately

[LCE]

BATTING at 100mm thickness to display insulation. And 1:100 was just an example, more concerned about 1:50, 1:20 and 1:10.

EDIT: Also note that this 100mm thickness is also just an example.

[NBC]

in that case, it may be more worthwhile to individually scale the linetype 's BATTING per drawing by the relevant VPSCALE that they are displayed within ?
there must be some form of customisation technique that could do that, rather than having multiple different scaled versions of the linetype BATTING in a lin file ?

[LCE]

well, you would think so wouldn't you, but I'm stumped.
Tried a range of things so far, that will work great if the drawing only has 1 vp, but screws it up if there are multiple vp at different scale.

[chulse]

Have you thought about using an annotative hatch instead of the batting linetype?

[halfcracked]

LCE did you ever find a solution?
I didn't quite see what the problem was untill I ran up against it using fenceline in an xref.

Is there a way to set ltscale for a particular layer perhaps?

I have a fenceline drawin in a xref that if I set a layout to show posts at roughly 6' OC in 1"=60' then when I zoom in on the xref to 1/4"=1'-0" the post spacing winds up being +-6".

It's just the lines on this one layer that I want to scale differently all other lines work fine with psltscale 1.

[LCE]

Nothing yet. Could do with a vba/.net, but not sure I want to go down that route. Have passed over it for now until the rest of my standards are complete.
Will get back to you to let you know what I have done.
Alternatively, set the ltscale for each entity, just qselect all lines on the layer then set in the properties palette.

[halfcracked]

Yeah but the problem is that the entity is xrefed into several sheets & needs 2 ltscales assigned to it. I think I may need to create a fenceline2 that way I can just change the layer linetype in the host file

[LCE]

My problem exactly....