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.

Re: Placed DWG Linetype Scale

Lingwisyer — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 03:50:06 GMT

So, I tried replacing the lines with a duplicated type that was 100x the dash length and spacing, and it shows the "correct linetype" on selection in the dialogue, but presents the identically as before... Instead of showing name.dwg|Dashed it shows name.dwg|ACAD Dashed so it is replacing, but the line definition does not match the one in the file. The definition does not actually change, and it is set to "model size" rather than "paper size". You cannot check any of this either when placing the DWG as a Drawing rather than an XRef...