couldn't find linetype files in autocad

[ali888]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone might be able to help me here. I have created some of my own linetype (.lin) which i would like to save them to Autocad so that they would appear in the autocad linetype list without having to load them from somewhere else.

Does anyone know where autocad 2005 keeps its linetypes? I checked them in the C:\program files\autocad 2005 but to no avail.

Thank you in advance

[smorales02]

should be something like this:

C:\Program Files\Autodesk Land Desktop 2006\Support

[SLW210]

C:\\Documents and Settings\\"users name"\\Application Data\\Autodesk\\AutoCAD
2005\\R16.1\\enu\\support\\acad.lin

[Alan Cullen]

When you find the acad.lin file, add your linetype definitions to the end of acad.lin under the section ;; User Defined Linetypes

[riga]

When you find the acad.lin file, add your linetype definitions to the end of acad.lin under the section ;; User Defined Linetypes

Or to acadiso.lin if you use drawings with measurement set to metric system

[Alan Cullen]

Riga, I tend to steer clear of *iso.* files. Even if your drawing is set up for metric, the definition works fine, because 2 unit line length is still 2m or 2mm, so really doesn't matter that much. Besides, I prefer to keep everything to acad.* files, much neater and cleaner IMHO.

[riga]

Riga, I tend to steer clear of *iso.* files. Even if your drawing is set up for metric, the definition works fine, because 2 unit line length is still 2m or 2mm, so really doesn't matter that much. Besides, I prefer to keep everything to acad.* files, much neater and cleaner IMHO.

Alan, it's not a question of preference but a question of praticity. I tend to use ONLY *iso.* files but the question is on how your templates/drawings MEASUREMENT variable is set (and MEASUREINIT, which control that variable at start). If they are set to 0 the default .lin file that autocad will use to load new linetype will be acad.lin, and if they are set to 1 it will look for acadiso.lin.
I know that when loading linetypes you can always switch from a file to the other, but if I have to save new definitions of linetypes I prefer to do it in the file that will be searched as default (in my case it will be acadiso.lin and in yours acad.lin)