Creating a new line type

[rengarch]

I am trying to create a line type to display like carpeting in section view. I drew in the vertical fibers of the carpet in the plan window with the scale set to 1:100. Pasted the lines as a symbol linetype. When I went to use the line type in a section window the scale of the carpet was all wrong. Could some direct me to a tutorial in creating this simple linetype?
Thank you.
Rita

[Anonymous]

Rita,
Have you made your custom line type "Scale with plan"
rather than "Scale independent" ?
It is a button at the bottom of the line type editing dialog.
Peter Devlin

[rengarch]

Peter,
Thanks for the quick response. I think there is a bug in V10. I did select Scale with plan and the vertical lines are huge. I tried using 1:50, 1:75, 1:200 scale window while drawing the lines to be pasted into the linetype. No luck, always the linetype is out of scale.

[vfrontiers]

I have never found LINE TYPE scaling to be worth anything... Do yourself a favor and make it a FILL... These scale much better...

You can do it with line types, especially for something like carpet. But you'll likely have to set the scale (or whatever that number is) to something like .02.

[Anonymous]

Good call Duane.
I have had the same experience with "scaled line types"
and agree, using fills works better.
Peter Devlin

[rengarch]

I've tried everything... doesn't work. Must be a bug. The linetype is the easiest way to go. I remember being able to do this in previous versions.

[Richard Morrison]

You may get some tips on scaling linetypes accurately HERE.

[Link]

Yes, it's never been easy to create a linetype. Not to scale anyway!

Cheers,
Link.

[vfrontiers]

Richard wrote:
You may get some tips on scaling linetypes accurately HERE.

Wow! 3 or 4 pages of explanation to tell me how to do something the computer / program should do!

Is it just me? or could all this be handled internally by a silicon chip better than my brain and a calculator?

I find it very useful for things that don't really need a scale (like stone paths or carpet section). I will have to check 11, but the other bugger has been that translating to DWG gives me only the AXIS and not the graphic line. Has anyone checked 11 for this? I don't have a copy of AutoCAD...

[Laura Yanoviak]

See if this works for ya...
PS. Imperial