Autocad Civil 3d Line Types And What They Are Used For

Complex linetypes are custom linetypes that can contain embedded shapes or text. Before you create complex linetypes using text, consider how the font settings, scaling, and colors will affect the linetype. Text style settings The text height setting will affect the linetype if it is set to a specific height other than zero (0). No other text style settings will apply, unless multiline text is placed in the drawing using the same text style defined in the complex linetype. You must use the REGEN command to see the changes. Note: Use a text editor such as Notepad to create the complex linetype.

Since AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011 and since all types of AutoCAD 2012 (and higher) you can interpret special RSC linetypes imported from DGN files. The standard command. The entities behave like normal lines and polylines but they are saved back to older AutoCAD versions as entities with proxy objects. Morning all, When I explode or export objects to vanilla cad, the linetype generation of exploded or exported lines, polylines etc. When exploded to blocks, the linetypes change how they are displayed. Tune Mujhe Bulaya Sherawaliye Download Mp3 Song. The polylines within. The other issue is the 3D face used for background masking of texts.

If you try to create the linetype within the program, the following error message is displayed: INVALID number or bad continuation Before you create a linetype with text in it, define the text style that you will use. Unless the text style used in the linetype has been defined in the current drawing, the following error message (or similar) is displayed when you try to load the line: Bad definition of (linetype name) at line (line#) of file c: Acltwin filename.lin Note: You will also receive this message if there is not a hard return, or, placed at the end of the file that you have created.

If you plan to use the LTSCALE or CELTSCALE command in the drawing, the text will change to the new size. Unless you follow these rules, it will shift out of alignment with the dashes that you have created. • Create the text STYLE with a height of zero. • Define the linetype, using the S= for the text height. • If you change the text style height, any complex linetype using that style is affected. This will take affect after a REGEN. • Use the text style exclusively for the complex linetype.

Scale The following exercise will demonstrate how to create a complex linetype and change the scale proportionally. Exercise When you create the complex linetype, you will assign the actual text height for the 'S' transform. The linetype transform values S= (text height) and Y= (Y offset) are for centering the characters. If the S=1, then you will want to offset Y=.5 to center the line. Tip: You may want to place a line of text with mtext first and use the distance command to check the character height.

Some fonts adhere to standards which may cause the center to be off. • In AutoCAD, create two text styles. Name them mcstyle and Map.

• Use the txt.shx font, and set the height to zero. • Accept the defaults for all the other settings. • Enter ltscale on the command line, and set the value to 1.

• Enter celtscale on the command line, and set the value to 1. • In a text editor, create a file named test.lin and paste the following text in the file. *MCSTYLE,--- MC --- A,1.0,-0.5,['MC',mcstyle,S=1,R=0,X=0,Y=-0.5],-2.0 *MAP,--- Map --- A,1.0,-0.5,['Map',mcstyle,S=1,R=0,X=0,Y=-0.5],-3.0 • Start a new drawing.

• Load the two linetypes using the test.lin file. • Assign each linetype to a layer.

• Set the LIMITS to 50,50 and Zoom All. • Draw a line on each layer to view the different line types. Now change the LTSCALE to 2. The lines should change.

Now try CELTSCALE set to 2 and place a new line on the screen. The dashes stay in proportion to the text and everything will scale together. Linetype defined A closer look at the linetype will tell what each part means. Each item is separated by commas.

Thanks Bob, Not quite what I was meaning though. Download Free Air Pilot Manual Pooleys. When I explode a profile view and profile, both become blocks.

Before exploding, the profiles show nice dashed linetypes. When exploded to blocks, the linetypes change how they are displayed. The polylines within the blocks default to 'disabled', so you have to explode all the blocks right down to lines/polylines then Qselect and change to enabled, or if you are at line level, rejoin them together and change to enabled.

Basically, when something is exploded, C3D seems to change the polyline setting within the blocks to 'disabled'. Which is a real pain from a drawing perspective. Is there a way round this, or is this another much-vaunted Autodesk 'feature'? Cheers, Kevin.

I'd say it's not really to do with linetype or annotative scaling. When we get down to the component polylines that make up the block (that was exploded from a civil 3D profile, for example), the linetype generation is always 'disabled'. So no matter what the linetype scale is, where the vertices are close together the linetype resets at each node rather than running through. The result is that when exploded, the C3D profile with a nice dashed line becomes a polyline made up of small runs of dashed lines rather than replicating the C3D profile. It's an issue because we have to tidy this up in CAD with virtually every export we do from C3D and I'm getting asked why we have to do this. Thanks Troma, I know how to do it after the explode as that's what we have to do at the moment. I wondered if there was a setting to set the default polyline mode to enabled.

2or 3 exports per drawing, 10-100's of drawings per job, 7 or 8 jobs at any time. We're trying to reduce the amount of cad work it takes to make C3D outputs acceptable for drawings. The other issue is the 3D face used for background masking of texts.

Perhaps Autodesk could spend more time developing cloud services and Infraworks instead of giving us a simple 'default polyline mode' toggle!;).