Placed DWG Linetype Scale

[Lingwisyer]

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...

[Mathias Jonathan]

What about line type mapping in the dawg translator?

[Lingwisyer]

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...

[Barry Kelly]

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.