linetypes

[Rico]

no.

Mlines have their own style manager.

i played with MLines for a bit and liked what I saw except that I was unable to go back into the MLine I created to modify the settings for it.

Is this right? Are you unable to edit the MLine after creation? Cuz that would be kinda sucky.

[Rico]

Hey Rico,
Heres something like what you want for the Arrow Line "-------->"
....and a lame version of a Double Line using an "equal sign" "====="

*ARROW_LINE,Arrow line ---- > ---- > ---- > ----
A,.2,-.09,[">",STANDARD,S=.1,R=0.0,X=-0.1,Y=-.05],.10


*DOUBLE_LINE,double line -=============================-
A,.001,-.2,["==",STANDARD,S=.105,R=0.0,X=-0.11,Y=-.0457],-.00001

I hope one helps any way

Ted, can you create this linetype?

=====>======>======>======>

[tedg]

never mind. figured it out.

one more Q that I CAN'T answer though ...

The double line linetype looks like it has another line running through the center ..... maybe it's just me ... can you look at that and tell me if I am going crazy?

I told you it was lame..
yes theres a "piece" of a line that appears as a dot or dash, I'm not sure how to get rid of that.
I basically copied another linetype and edited it with the equal sign.

If you tweak with the values within the code it adjusts the start & stop points of those segments as well as offset of the text. I don't know those off the top of my head, I usually use trial and error.

Good Luck Dude..

[Rico]

I told you it was lame..
yes theres a "piece" of a line that appears as a dot or dash, I'm not sure how to get rid of that.
I basically copied another linetype and edited it with the equal sign.

If you tweak with the values within the code it adjusts the start & stop points of those segments as well as offset of the text. I don't know those off the top of my head, I usually use trial and error.

Good Luck Dude..

dude, it's WAY better than anything I can do.

I don't even understand hwo to do what you are doing.

So, all I was wondering is if you knew it was there.

Relax, man. You are my hero today.

[tedg]

Ted, can you create this linetype?

=====>======>======>======>

Maybe, I'll get back to ya..

[tedg]

Ted, can you create this linetype?

=====>======>======>======>

Ok Rico, here's what I came up with.
I can only manage two equals between the arrow heads
==>==>==>==>

*RICOS_ARROW,Ricos Arrow -==>==>==>==>==>==>==>==>-
A,.001,-.3,["==>",STANDARD,S=.105,R=0.0,X=-0.21,Y=-.02],-.00001

[Rico]

Ok Rico, here's what I came up with.
I can only manage two equals between the arrow heads
==>==>==>==>

*RICOS_ARROW,Ricos Arrow -==>==>==>==>==>==>==>==>-
A,.001,-.3,["==>",STANDARD,S=.105,R=0.0,X=-0.21,Y=-.02],-.00001

In the immortal words of Shrek: "That'll do donkey. That'll do."

Thanks, man. You are my own personal CAD Gazoo today!

[tedg]

In the immortal words of Shrek: "That'll do donkey. That'll do."

Thanks, man. You are my own personal CAD Gazoo today!

I'm glad I could help in my own little way....

[The VLG]

Hey I'm hoping for a little of that magic here too, we have a couple of linetypes that we need to modify, however we don't have the .lin file to work with, I'm hoping that one of you bright sparks could 'reverse engineer' them for me, I've had a go, but my experiance on custom linetypes just isn't up to it....drawing attached with them...

[gandocadguy]

for these linetypes why is no one using a shape file? If you make a shape that is ===> or however you want it to look then you just make it repeat over and over with .0001 of a dot between. Plotters won't plot the dots and they are barely visable on the screen. I've used this for several different line types. An example being a demo line which places // // over an existing line type.

I'd be happy to help out if you're not familiar with the shape files. Attached are a couple linetypes in a pdf.