creating a complex linetype with shape

[arman88]

I'm trying to create a linetpye .The line needs to be continuous with a solid(not hollow) circles at distances.This would be the same as FENCELINE1:

*FENCELINE1,Fenceline circle ----0-----0----0-----0----0-----0--
A,.25,-.1,[CIRC1,ltypeshp.shx,x=-.1,s=.1 ],-.1,1

but with filled-in circles.for example circles should be hatched or colored.

An image of desired linetype is attached.

Any help would be great.Thanks in advance.

[lpseifert]

Shapes can't have a solid fill/hatch. You can simulate the fill with closely spaced lines.
Or use text instead of a shape; e.g. use the font file Arial with the character \U+25CF

[arman88]

Thanks a lot for your concern
I could do this by drawing several circles with same center near each other, which resemble a filled circle as you said.Then I made a shape file of these using the menu Express>Tools>Make Shape , which gives *.shp and *.shx file.I called this file in a *.lin file and it worked

I don't know enough to perform what you said about using fonts, cause I am not that familiar and I've not worked with fonts.

Anyway it solved

[ChrisCMU]

Shapes can't have a solid fill/hatch. You can simulate the fill with closely spaced lines.
Or use text instead of a shape; e.g. use the font file Arial with the character \U+25CF

That doesn't seem to work.

If I have this in my linetype file:

*telephone,----O----O----
A,200,-0,["\U+25CF",Arial,S=0.20,R=0.0,X=-0.1,Y=4],200,["\U+25CF",Arial,S=0.20,R=0.0,X=-0.1,Y=-12]

The result is:

[alanjt]

Try this (uses Arial font):

;*PROP-FENCE-CL,----0-----0----0-----0----0-----0-
;A,.476777,["\U+25CF",LT-P,y=-.0275,s=.06],.00197,-.037923

[ChrisCMU]

That gives me an error trying to load the linetype file:

"Bad definition of PROP-FENCE-CL at line 142" (the second line from your code)

[alanjt]

That gives me an error trying to load the linetype file:

"Bad definition of PROP-FENCE-CL at line 142" (the second line from your code)

Because the textstyle doesn't exist. It's just a textstyle with Arial font. Just replace "LT-P" with "Arial".

[ChrisCMU]

so do I need to create a text style called LT-P with Arial as the font?

[alanjt]

so do I need to create a text style called LT-P with Arial as the font?

or just replace it with Arial.

;*PROP-FENCE-CL,----0-----0----0-----0----0-----0-
;A,.476777,["\U+25CF",ARIAL,y=-.0275,s=.06],.00197,-.037923

[rkmcswain]

You can make all sorts of "text-based" linetypes with the various shapes that are in wingdings.ttf, webdings.ttf, etc. Here are a couple...

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