×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

I recently made a custom line type,

I recently made a custom line type,

I recently made a custom line type,

(OP)
I recently made a custom line type, but i have found that the text in it does'nt curve that well.

*63MM_GAS_LINE,63Gas LINE ----63MM GAS LINE----63MM GAS LINE----63MM GAS LINE----
A,.5,-.2,["63MM GAS",STANDARD,S=.1,R=0.0,X=-0.1,Y=-.05],-1.2

It works fine with straight lines and large radi curves but the text kicks out straight in the tighter curves. Is there anyway to fix the problem???

cheers,

RE: I recently made a custom line type,

Try putting pieces of line between your individual words.
If you use polylines then setting plinegen may also help.

RE: I recently made a custom line type,

Dear R12NV,

Piece of cake,
Change the code as follow. I would like to remind you it is better to insert the text definition part in seperate lines because the permitted expression length in text file is limitted.

*63MM_GAS_LINE,63Gas LINE ----63MM GAS LINE----63MM GAS LINE----63MM GAS LINE----
A,.5,-.2,
["6",STANDARD,S=.1,R=0.0,X=-0.1,Y=-.05],-.1,
["3",STANDARD,S=.1,R=0.0,X=-0.1,Y=-.05],-.1,
["M",STANDARD,S=.1,R=0.0,X=-0.1,Y=-.05],-.1,
["M",STANDARD,S=.1,R=0.0,X=-0.1,Y=-.05],-.3,
["G",STANDARD,S=.1,R=0.0,X=-0.1,Y=-.05],-.1,
["A",STANDARD,S=.1,R=0.0,X=-0.1,Y=-.05],-.1,
["S",STANDARD,S=.1,R=0.0,X=-0.1,Y=-.05],-.2

Load the above linetype and everything will be OK.
:)
Farzad

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources