Stela_Tech Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 Hi, I have been looking on the forum for a similar problem, but could not find anything on that subject. So sorry in advance if I am asking a question that has been previously answered. Here it is: For a few days now, my ltscale and psltscale have been resetting to 1 on their own. I do not see what I did for this to happen. For exemple, I set my ltscale to 32, and after 5 minutes of drafting I realize that my lines look off. I type in LTSCALE and it is set at 1. I set it back to 32, and 5 or 10 minutes later it is at 1 again. The same problem ocured when I was preparing to plot. I had set my PSLTSCALE to 0 and my LTSCALE to 3 (this is in another drawing) and when I try to plot, both properties have gone back to 1. Has anyone experienced this problem before? I find it very odd... This is not a issue with a specific file as it is occuring no matter what drawing file I am working on. I am thinking it could be in my settings, but I do not recall changing anyting and I cannot see what setting would govern this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazardman Posted June 19, 2009 Share Posted June 19, 2009 are you running any special lips routines or similar?..they could be changing those values... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stela_Tech Posted June 19, 2009 Author Share Posted June 19, 2009 Thank you for the fast reply! But I am not sure what you mean by lips routine.. Edit: It seams my problem has changed a bit...My scales only seem to change when I try to plot now, not overtime. Although I noticed that my object scales (set thought the opject's properties) do go back to 1 every 5 min. or so... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stela_Tech Posted June 22, 2009 Author Share Posted June 22, 2009 I have switched to AutoCAD 2009 and I was abble to print properly! I still haven't figured out what caused this...:wink: but I will stick with 2009 if it keeps happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CadDog Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Here is what I have seen... Since 12 we have been using a lisp which switches space and text size and ltscale... example: 1"=10' In paper the ltscale = 1 while in Model the ltscale = 10 Again, along with linestyle we also adjust the text size to fit the scale... Anyway... I found the 2008 dwt works with linestyles and keeps the ltscale always set to one (1)... So I created a new drawing added one linestyle and changed my lisp to keep the ltscale = 1... Works great but once I save and re-open this same simple little file things quickly start acting funny... If I use the tabs along the bottom to swithch space, which keep the ltscale to 1, the linestyle stops working... But is I use my lisp once, which changes the scale to 10 in model, the linestyle works right again...??? I can't find the answer of what is causing this to happen so until I find and understand what AutoCAD did and which variable does what...??? I will continue to use my lisp to reset ltscale to the scale of the drawing while in model space... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpseifert Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Msltscale=1 displays linetypes in Model tab per cannoscale Psltscale=1 displays linetypes in Paperspace viewports per viewport scale Ltscale= 1 or to your choosing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chulse Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Here is what I have seen... Since 12 we have been using a lisp which switches space and text size and ltscale... example: 1"=10' In paper the ltscale = 1 while in Model the ltscale = 10 Again, along with linestyle we also adjust the text size to fit the scale... Anyway... I found the 2008 dwt works with linestyles and keeps the ltscale always set to one (1)... So I created a new drawing added one linestyle and changed my lisp to keep the ltscale = 1... Works great but once I save and re-open this same simple little file things quickly start acting funny... If I use the tabs along the bottom to swithch space, which keep the ltscale to 1, the linestyle stops working... But is I use my lisp once, which changes the scale to 10 in model, the linestyle works right again...??? I can't find the answer of what is causing this to happen so until I find and understand what AutoCAD did and which variable does what...??? I will continue to use my lisp to reset ltscale to the scale of the drawing while in model space... If I understand correctly what you are seeing, then setting MSLTSCALE to 1 may be a solution. It will allow the linetypes to display annotatively in model space, letting you keep your LTSCALE setting however you want it. Also, PSLTSCALE set to 1 will scale the linetypes by the VPort's scale. oops, too slow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CadDog Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 If I understand correctly what you are seeing, then setting MSLTSCALE to 1 may be a solution. It will allow the linetypes to display annotatively in model space, letting you keep your LTSCALE setting however you want it. Also, PSLTSCALE set to 1 will scale the linetypes by the VPort's scale. oops, too slow Thanks Chulse, I check that and found the same things happening... Again, Until I understand what does what in these newer versions, I will continue to use my old lisp... (defun c:TT ()(Setvar "cmdecho" 0);1=arch 2=Eng 4=MM 6=Meters (if (= (getvar "tilemode") 1) ;if your in Model Space (progn (cond ((and (= (getvar "USERI1") 0)) ; imperial (progn (command "ltscale" "1") (command "setvar" "psltscale" "1") (command "textsize" ddsth) ; Added this variable which is set in AcadDoc 8/30/2002 (command "DIMSCALE" "1") (command "DimAssoc" "1") )) ((and (= (getvar "USERI1") 2)) ; metric Milli (progn (command "ltscale" "25.4") (command "setvar" "psltscale" "1") (command "textsize" "3") (command "DimAssoc" "1") (command "dimscale" "1"))) );end first cond (command "tilemode" "0" "DimAssoc" "1") ; Switch to Paper Space );end first progn (progn (cond ((/= (getvar "USERR2") 0)(command "textsize"(getvar "USERR2") "dimscale"(getvar "USERR4"))) ((and (= (getvar "USERR1") 0))(progn (command "userr1" "1")))) (command "ltscale" (getvar "USERR1")"dimlfac" "1" "tilemode" "1" "DimAssoc" "1") );end second cond )(Setvar "cmdecho" 1)(princ)) I use another lisp program to set my scales for text, dimensions and viewports and within that lisp the "USERR" are also set. We been using these since AutoCAD 12 and I have also needed to adjust a couple of these as the versions came out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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