av.33771
2004-11-26, 09:46 PM
When a 3D line has a complex linetype it displays and plots in plan view.
This is not possible if those lines are made up from a 3D polyline.
Thus our surveying office cannot move to 3D fully thus losing the integrity of the database as all data is flattened to be 2D.
As a workaround we also explode the polylines which forces them to display the linetype and then we close the dwg without saving.
This is a problem as we have to select what can be exploded as we don't necessarily want all to explode as some blocks will revert to layer 0 thus loosing their color and plot incorrectly. Also our custom plot date text is not saved as we quit without saving thus one can't look at the dwg and know when it was plotted last and by whom.
Please add to AutoCAD. You may want to add a System Variable (SETVAR "LTYPE3D") to control the visibility with the default to be say LTYPE3D = 0 to make it compatible with older dwgs. When you saveas to a previous version the display will be lost as the older version won't support this command.
Andreas
This is not possible if those lines are made up from a 3D polyline.
Thus our surveying office cannot move to 3D fully thus losing the integrity of the database as all data is flattened to be 2D.
As a workaround we also explode the polylines which forces them to display the linetype and then we close the dwg without saving.
This is a problem as we have to select what can be exploded as we don't necessarily want all to explode as some blocks will revert to layer 0 thus loosing their color and plot incorrectly. Also our custom plot date text is not saved as we quit without saving thus one can't look at the dwg and know when it was plotted last and by whom.
Please add to AutoCAD. You may want to add a System Variable (SETVAR "LTYPE3D") to control the visibility with the default to be say LTYPE3D = 0 to make it compatible with older dwgs. When you saveas to a previous version the display will be lost as the older version won't support this command.
Andreas