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New Line Type question

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:43:21 GMT

I'm trying to create a new line type for drawing T&G.
What I would like is for it to offset the graphics by the thickness of the T&G but the reference line is created down the center of the graphic.
Is there any way to offset this? I tried to locate a hotspot but it didn't help.

Re: New Line Type question

Gerald Hoffman — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:27:59 GMT

Chris as far as I know you can't. It's the nature of a line. You will just have to drag your new line away 1/2 the thickness of your T&G.

Cheers,

Re: New Line Type question

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:17:15 GMT

Hello Chris,
If you use a duplicate of an existing line type that draws itself
offset like "Zigzag" you can get what you want.
After you have created your line type you have to fool around
with the length of the "Dash" to get it to the right scale.
Notice the dash length in the attached image. I drew the
shape in plan to 5 1/2" long by 3/4" high.
The plan scale was 1"=1'-0".
Peter Devlin

Re: New Line Type question

Link — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:23:53 GMT

You can set your scale to 1:1 and position the line elements on project origin before pasting them into the linetype. ArchiCAD will use the project origin as the origin of the line.

Getting it to scale correctly is much more challenging.

Cheers,
Link.

Re: New Line Type question

vfrontiers — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:52:12 GMT

It used to be you could just reset the USER ORIGIN prior to COPYING the elements and it would force it to be the origin of the line. Maybe that doesn't work anymore and, as Link said, you have to set it to PROJECT ORIGIN.

Re: New Line Type question

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:27:19 GMT

That worked great guys! Thank you for your help
I tried to post the line type but it was blocked.

Re: New Line Type question

vfrontiers — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:17:20 GMT

BTW... my instinct is that things like T&G or anything DIMENSIONAL should be done with a FILL PATTERN instead. This works in scale faithfully!

Re: New Line Type question

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:36:18 GMT

vfrontiers wrote:
BTW... my instinct is that things like T&G or anything DIMENSIONAL should be done with a FILL PATTERN instead. This works in scale faithfully!

It also makes it easier to define where your profile starts and stops.