Custom Linetype, why is this so difficult?

[MichaelH27]

I have tried to create a linetype from lines and text. I have drawn lines and enetered "E" at equal spacings. This is what I want to use as my linetype for a buried elec line. I have used the express menu "make linetype" and it didnt work. Why didnt it work? Why is this so difficult? Why is there "secrets" to building this stuff?

Attached is a jpg of my headache.

Thanks,
Mad Michael

[MSasu]

Something like this?

*BELECTRIC_LINE,Buried electric line ---E----E----E----E----E---
A,.5,-.2,["E",STANDARD,S=.1,R=0.0,X=-0.1,Y=-.05],-.04

[MichaelH27]

Yup, nice one! How can I increase the size of the "E"s? and make the lines a little bit longer?

I have no idea how to read that code.

I copy and pasted your code into notepad and created a .lin file from that, loaded it up and yes.... thats what I want it to look like but need to do a few little changes and then I can use it to create other linetypes.

[MSasu]

Try to play with blue number for line size, respectively with red ones for label appearance:

*BELECTRIC_LINE,Buried electric line ---E----E----E----E----E---
A,3,-.2,["E",STANDARD,S=.3,R=0.0,X=-0.1,Y=-.15],-.17

[SLW210]

Try checking out THIS

[MichaelH27]

I've done soemthing wrong, I was playing around with the numbers in the code and figured them out somewhat, but then it dawned on me that my ltscale is set to 50.

In the jpg I attached, you can see the 2 lines with a centrex2 linetype. one runs north/south the other east/west/. The distances of those lines are 804.68m you can see the little green squares, those are 90m x 90m with a hiddenx2 linetype.

In order for me to see the linetypes that I want, I changed the ltscale to 50. If I make the ltscale 1, You cant see the linetypes. Is the proper way to leave the ltscale set to 1? If so, How can I generate the linetypes to show up in the jpg without messing with the ltscale? Also having a problem with plotting. I have NOTHING in the preview window, no idea whats going on with this, another problem thats going to creep on me until I get to it.... ugggghhhh