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If done correctly, you should now be able to load this file using the LINETYPE command. Make sure the text height for that style is set to 0 in the drawing so that the text height is controlled by the height setting in the linetype (s=.1) and the LTSCALE, rather than a static value.Īt the bottom of the acad.lin file is space to add your own custom linetype. Choose a text style that exists in all of your drawings, such as the Standard text style. The most difficult part about this is determining the horizontal and vertical offsets, but even those are not too hard to figure out by experimenting and giving your linetype a few test runs. *HOT_WATER_SUPPLY,Hot water supply - HW - HW - HW -Ī.5,-.2,-.2 This bracket portion defines the linetype text, text style, text size, rotation angle, horizontal offset, and vertical offset. Linetypes with text become a bit more complicated by including a portion specific to the text in brackets. Below you can see how these values relate to the actual linetype. Positive values represent a line of that length, negative values represent a space of that length, and zeroes represent periods.

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First we have a standard letter A to specify the alignment type (always A in AutoCAD linetypes), then a series of values to define the actual pattern. The second line is where it starts to get tricky. The first line consists of a standard asterisk, the linetype name, and a description including a text preview of the linetype.

Įvery linetype definition consists of two lines of text. Let’s take a look at one of the existing definitions to see how they work. The acad.lin file is where the definitions of many of the default linetypes reside. To find the location of this file, at the command line, type (findfile “ acad.lin“ ). The first method consists of adding the definition of your custom linetype to your acad.lin file.

If, in the event that you know exactly what linetypes you would like to create yourself, use either of the two methods below to do so. While not too difficult, it tends to be a task many users choose to leave to their company’s CAD manager. I'm guessing this really isn't the way forward and would be eternally grateful if anyone can get me back to 15minutes ago.As one of the instructors here at CAD Masters, I’d have to say one of my favorite topics to teach is creating custom AutoCAD linetypes. If I click on 'hatch', I get a small dialogue box that says 'acadiso.pat can't find file, then one says 'no standard patterns available, then ,error in reading pattern file, then ,fatal error, and then it closes. If I ignore this and close it, my workspace is behind it and opens up. Now if I go back to open up my workspace I get a dialogue box that says 'select shape style' and in highlighted file name is 'ltypeshp.shx.

I highlighted the first one and browsed until I found my downloaded folder of hatches and clicked etc. Another thread said they should be visble in tools - options - support file search path. I found some stone hatches from another thread and downloaded them. I have been trying to load and run lisps and new hatches over the last few hours with no success. I freely admit to not knowing what on earth I am doing. I seem to leant on the 'nuclear holocaust' button with both elbows.

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