sparkyuk Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 Had this drawing sent to me , and I always like to show the lighting switch lines dashed, but the guy who did this drawing had all his lines solid, anyways I have tried to change them but no matter what line i choice non of them show up as dashed in paper space or when printed what has he done that is stopping this please ? I have added just part of the drawing as it was to big for the whole drawing to upload here Test.dwg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 I changed LTSCALE to 1 and got some dashing going on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkyuk Posted February 16, 2011 Author Share Posted February 16, 2011 Tiger yes tried that and 2 of the lines did dash but not all,including the one in the drawing, the 3 I added to one side 2 of them changed, im quess who ever did the drawing in the first place may have used a diff prog to autocad and has set up some strange line scales then ? any other ideas to whats going on ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 am I right in thinking that its the NB_ME layer that you are talking about? It is not set to dashed in the file here. If i set it to DASHED and then change LTSALE to 0.5 it looks dashed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankman Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 You might also like the attached lisp file, create your own lines. LTFly Instructions.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkyuk Posted February 16, 2011 Author Share Posted February 16, 2011 Tiger no its the layer named "switch wires" Tankman Thanks i will check that out when i have a minute Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glen1980 Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 The lighting circuits are drawn at an individual scale of 350. When I changed them back to 1 they became dashed. In fact I just selected all lines and arcs and changed their scales to 1 and they dashed. LTS for the drawing 15 Test.dwg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 Yep, what Glen said. Line scale should never be set on individual lines. It is just one more place where you have to keep track of what you're doing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkyuk Posted February 16, 2011 Author Share Posted February 16, 2011 Well thanks guys it would seem the guy who sent me this didnt know how it should be done i guess, so where in the drawing did you find the line scales for the lines please ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 I have the Properties pane up (type PR to bring it up) and then highlight the line in question. Line scale is in the top section in Properties Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glen1980 Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 I know it's wrong but we do our drawings at LTS 1 then individually scale the lines. Our previous CAD manager told us to draw that way and we've never got out of the habit. As nothing has ever gone wrong and we're the client as far as our drawings going out I doubt now we'll ever change unless I can go to my manager with good cast iron reasons and proof that it wouldn't go wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkyuk Posted February 17, 2011 Author Share Posted February 17, 2011 Another stupid question why would you want to rescale the standard cad lines and cause this sort of problem in the first place and what would be the difference if all it will do will make a line solid instead of dashed ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glen1980 Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 I think we had problems with lines rescaling when drawings were x-reffed into one another, it wasn't on my job and I wasn't involved, honest guv! Most of the people here at the time had no professional AutoCAD experience so we did what he told us supposing it was correct. Previously I had been using LTS but had never used AutoCAD for large scale projects just college projects and the odd house extension. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiger Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 I never scale separate lines because then if I need to change the scale, I need to find what x-ref (I work with drawings with 10-15 x-refs in each, at least) the line is in, sometimes its nested a few steps and then change the linescale there. If I have all the lines to scale 1, and LTSCALE=1 in all drawings, then I can easily set LTSCALE in my last drawing and that affects everything. With PSLTSCALE set to 1 ofcourse. IN the end, as long as you have a structure and everyone does it the same way, then either way will work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glen1980 Posted February 17, 2011 Share Posted February 17, 2011 Our engineers draw the LTS way as they have lines with text in them i.e. ----38----- indicating duct diameters, but we rarely x-ref their drawings into ours. Why they didn't tell us it was wrong way back then, especially as the engineer was the only other experienced CAD guy at the time. As I said it hasn't caused any problems so I would have trouble making everyone draw the accepted correct way now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daft vader Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 You might also like the attached lisp file, create your own lines. Tankman I couldnt get it to work could you please explain what to do as I would like to make my own lines for a project I'm working on, thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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