Disproportionate Linetype Scales

[Coloradomrg]

I did notice that the annotation scale was set to 1:10, and that the linetype was either 1/10th or 10x the size of the other depending on which you looked at, but I've never seen or created different linetypes for different scales. But I don't work in the civil world... so I would have little need for that.

[BB381184]

I don't think it's an annotation scale issue but I will look at the .lin file.

I'm using 2013 and don't create linetypes for different scales.

[jaberwok]

I have tried that change but no difference. Is that just a non USA way of spelling we use here though? All my linetypes were 'out of the box'.

ADesk, being American, spell it CENTER even in the acadiso.lin (metric) file.
Load CENTER and apply it to the layer - should be good to go.

[BB381184]

ADesk, being American, spell it CENTER even in the acadiso.lin (metric) file.
Load CENTER and apply it to the layer - should be good to go.

Changed to CENTER and no difference but changing to linetype ACAD_ISO08W100 works.

[jaberwok]

Changed to CENTER and no difference but changing to linetype ACAD_ISO08W100 works.

At least it works. Good.

[arshiel88]

It's ok, I think they are OOTB linetypes. The problem is that the definitions came from different files. The CENTRE came from acad.lin(imperial) and the HIDDEN came from acadiso.lin(metric).

Although you can specify which file you will use while loading, default definition is controlled by MEASUREMENT system variable.
0-for imperial
1-for metric

[jaberwok]

It's ok, I think they are OOTB linetypes. The problem is that the definitions came from different files. The CENTRE came from acad.lin(imperial) and the HIDDEN came from acadiso.lin(metric).

Although you can specify which file you will use while loading, default definition is controlled by MEASUREMENT system variable.
0-for imperial
1-for metric

Could be, but the scale ratio between acad.lin and acadiso.lin is usually between approx. 20 and 25:1, not 10:1.
Strange.

[dgorsman]

Most clients I work with which use the ACAD.LIN file with metric drawings use a global LTSCALE of 10, despite the actual scale of ~ 25.

[jaberwok]

Most clients I work with which use the ACAD.LIN file with metric drawings use a global LTSCALE of 10, despite the actual scale of ~ 25.

not relevant but -
why aren't they using a metric setup/template for metric drawings?

[dgorsman]

They haven't even considered that there is an ACADISO.LIN file with appropriately scaled values. "Thats what its always been in AutoCAD. They must have added it in the last release without telling anybody. Oh, thats for special programs, we don't need that." and so on. Most will just keep doing whats been inherited without investigating deeper.

Templates don't figure into things as much as you would think. Either the DWG files are several decades old, or are copied from those drawings.