Custom Linetype Won't Print Correctly

[CatCup]

Hi,

I created the below custom linetype.

*ARROW_LINES,---- > ---- > ---- > ---- >
A,5,-.1,[">",STANDARD,S=10,R=0.0,X=0,Y=-5],10

It shows up fine in the model window, but when I view it in the layout or plot preview windows (or plot it), it displays as a Continuous linetype. The layer it's on is set to plot.

Any ideas why the linetype doesn't show up?

I'm using AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008.

[dumfatnhappy]

Hi,

I created the below custom linetype.

*ARROW_LINES,---- > ---- > ---- > ---- >
A,5,-.1,[">",STANDARD,S=10,R=0.0,X=0,Y=-5],10

It shows up fine in the model window, but when I view it in the layout or plot preview windows (or plot it), it displays as a Continuous linetype. The layer it's on is set to plot.

Any ideas why the linetype doesn't show up?

I'm using AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008.

make sure your LTscale and PSltscale are set to 1. do a regenall and see how it looks

[CatCup]

Still no good :|. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

[dumfatnhappy]

Hi,

I created the below custom linetype.

*ARROW_LINES,---- > ---- > ---- > ---- >
A,5,-.1,[">",STANDARD,S=10,R=0.0,X=0,Y=-5],10

It shows up fine in the model window, but when I view it in the layout or plot preview windows (or plot it), it displays as a Continuous linetype. The layer it's on is set to plot.

Any ideas why the linetype doesn't show up?

I'm using AutoCAD Civil 3D 2008.


ok, I missed the dirt merchant part :wink: I'll assume it's a pline, if so have you done a pedit and checked the Ltype? should be on...then regenall once back in paper space

[CatCup]

The line is a polyline. Ltype was off, so I turned it on, but it didn't make any difference.

[dumfatnhappy]

can you post.....n/m. you need 10 post's to be able to post. It doesn't sound that tricky if you can actually see it correctly at some point. See if someone else chimes in (until you can post it anyway)
sorry man :oops:

[Alan Cullen]

Try playing around with the values in your definition text. I draw in metres, and I played with your definition to end up with this....


*1T,---- > ---- > ---- > ---- >
A,5,-0.5,[">",ISO,S=2.5,R=0.0,X=-1.4,Y=-0.9]-0.5,5

And this is the linestyle I got.....

5506

[dumfatnhappy]

you cats and your metres (units in general allready)........ there is always info left out


argggg..........:P

[CatCup]

I'm drawing in meters too - albeit at a very large scale. My average line is about 400m long.

When I use the linestyle you posted, it just looks like a Continuous line - even when I zoom in as far as possible.

[hellnback]

Is it a PL or is it a 3d Poly with different Z values?

[dumfatnhappy]

ok Alan...I'm throwing it at you. without *all* the info...only so much I can guess at....
(I used to be really good at this....but then came v13.........)

[Alan Cullen]

Check that your LTSCALE is set to 1. Also select one of your lines that is showing up incorrectly, and check that the linetype scale on that is also set to 1.

[CatCup]

All the linetype scales are set to 1. The line is a polyline, and the line segments show the Z coordinate as 0.00, but the end points have various different z coordinates.

[dumfatnhappy]

ok part of that made sense to me. the end points?
I'm out......
(but then I'm not a dirt merchant either....:o )

[Alan Cullen]

Use the Express command FLATTEN on that polyline, and see what happens then......

[PS_Port]

Doesn't the text style name, `iso' for Alans and 'standard' for cats, control the initial size of the text `>' in the complex linetype definition..

maybe the text style size should be looked at...

I really haven't had too much time to muck around with linetypes..:unsure:

[Alan Cullen]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Good catch, Paul. I'm such an idiot.....I keep doing that. :P

Sorry, CatCup. Try this.....


*ARROW_LINES,---- > ---- > ---- > ---- >
A,5,-0.5,[">",STANDARD,S=2.5,R=0.0,X=-1.4,Y=-0.9]-0.5,5

[CatCup]

The last suggestion still doesn't make the arrows show up in the layout views - though for some reason it reverses the direction of the arrows in the model view. I also tried flattening all the lines, to no avail.

[Alan Cullen]

I'm rapidly running out of ideas here. Try and get your 10 posts up so you can write that polyline out to a block, and post the block here as a drawing file. Then we can all have a look at it and try to figure out what's going on. :)

[Ritch7]

custom linetype wont print correctly = scale issues, theirs no other soultion

[CatCup]

Well, here are a couple of screen shots - one in the model view, showing the line correctly, and one in the layout view, showing the line as a continuous line.

I also tried (way back when I first hit the problem) increasing the scale massively (to 1000). It didn't change the layout view at all.

[PS_Port]

This is just a guess..
the text style `standard' you are using in your complex linetype might be set to annotative.. which might be causing your scaling issue.:)

[CatCup]

Nope, the text style isn't set to annotative...

[PS_Port]

Couple of questions

what is default textsize in style dialog box for `standard' "

and what is CELTSCALE set to ?

I'm starting to run out of ideas

[CatCup]

There's no 'textsize field' in the dialog box I get; there is a height field, which is set to zero. I tried changing it, and it makes a difference in the model window, but I still can't see anything in the layout window.

CELTSCALE is set to 1.00

[PS_Port]

sorry I ment height, that all sounds cool... anyone else have ideas???:unsure:

[Alan Cullen]

Yeah, get CatCup up to 10 posts, so he can post the drawing here.

So keep asking questions, Paul..... :P

[CatCup]

So how do I post the drawing here?

"he"?

[PS_Port]

You can attach a .dwg just like you did with the screen shots (I assume)
'Manage attachements' in the `Additional Options' section when you are replying to a thread.

You might need to clean up a section of the dwg as you can only post a 250k file.:)

Thanks for the help Alan..:P

[CatCup]

Here it is.

Hang on, the file I just posted - a cut down version - does have the arrows showing in the layout view, but the original still doesn't.

[PS_Port]

Atleast we might be narrowing the problem....:lol:

I'll take a look at the file later, but as you stated, it works in that file, so I don't think I'm going to find something there.

[Alan Cullen]

How big is the original file?

[CatCup]

The original file is 8MB.

I tried pasting the cut down version back into the original file, but the arrows still weren't visible in the layout view. I presume this is because the two files have different settings somewhere... The cut down version was made by pasting the arrows layer into the acadiso template.

[PS_Port]

Try wblocking the whole file into the acadiso template just to see.

[CatCup]

Well, I wblocked the whole file - I'm not sure if it was into the acadiso template or not.

Now there are no arrows visible at all - even when I increase the scale of the arrows to 100.