topic Re: Placed DWG Linetype Scale in Collaboration with other software

Placed DWG Linetype Scale

Lingwisyer — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 02:51:03 GMT

Hi all,

How do you get linetypes to scale properly. I have a dashed line which is coming in as a static 3mm/1mm model length which at any reasonable drawing scale becomes a solid line... And the drawing of the lines using a circle centered on the dash ends eats up the gaps even more...

Ling.

ps. Was sure I had come across this before, but I have spent way too long searching the forum only getting results about exporting and failed linetype conversion...

Re: Placed DWG Linetype Scale

Mathias Jonathan — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:07:52 GMT

What about line type mapping in the dawg translator?

Re: Placed DWG Linetype Scale

Lingwisyer — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:52:13 GMT

The lines get converted but are still set to Model Size. Importing as an Xref instead of an External Drawing, the line types get a listing that I can edit to be scale to Paper Size, but I do not want all of the layers and other attributes...

Re: Placed DWG Linetype Scale

Barry Kelly — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:17:58 GMT

Yes, I set up a translator for one of our surveyors that swapped their line types for something similar to what I have in our template.

From memory I did have to set up some new line types that mimicked theirs.

Barry.