I just had an old timer tell me he he use to have a linetype that would allow him to enter preferred text at the command line.
I have never used or even heard about this. Is this something true?
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I just had an old timer tell me he he use to have a linetype that would allow him to enter preferred text at the command line.
I have never used or even heard about this. Is this something true?
No, he may have had a program that did that.
Here's an old wish list of mine: https://forums.augi.com/showthread.p...=1#post1146573
Complex Linetypes were introduced before Mtext, adding Mtext like features in the definitions starting them with M instead of S or A would make them so much easier and useful.
1. I'd like see features like Mtext has like referencing fonts instead of Text Styles and Background mask for the text. Then I could call out a font instead of having to create a Text Style using the font just to reference a character. A and S are still the only alignment codes and only A which guarantees the ends always start and end with a dash is documented. Perhaps the more current type formating could be used with a new alignment code.
2. The ability to set the text angle without being able to center justify it has always been useless.
3. More shapes in the standard ltypeshp.shp including arcs of 30°, 45°, 60°, & 90° so we wouldn't have to create and keep track of custom shape files for most linetypes.
4. Incorporate multiline functionally into complex linetypes, multilines were poorly thought out.
I didnt think so. I have been using ACAD for 25 yrs now and like you are saying, outside of a few multiline functions I have seen everywhere I have been has .lin files that are modified accordingly.
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Last edited by tim_newsome; 2019-09-24 at 05:59 PM.
For those one-off oddball lines types I use a piece of Mtext on a line and then Arraypath the Mtext along the line. It looks like a linetype but its really not.
5. The ability to add starting and ending symbols to linetypes.
Last edited by rkmcswain; 2019-09-25 at 03:38 PM.
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If you want to get really fancy you could use a lisp to choose draw a line with a specific linetype. I dreamed that up a long time ago for drawing in utilities and got it to work, but I never actually used it. Ended up basically being a Rube Goldberg routine. Is that a thing? If not copyrighted 2019.
Ron Perez ( ronjonp ) lisp for creating linetypes with text at: https://cadtips.cadalyst.com/2d-oper...ustom-linetype
originally posted at: https://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=47058.0
Cadalyst link seems to be broken lisp attached.