layer question 1

[zennis]

I have a layer called "swale-line" which in some drawings AutoCAD 2002 shows up with arrow and dots as the linetype and in other drawings just shows up as dashed. Is there a global or local setting that I can change to make it show as arrow and dots.

Thanks

 

[borgunit]

Type in LAYER at the command line and see what the layer has defined for its Linetype.

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." — Will Rogers

 

[CADSTUDENT]

Hello zennis,

In the layer manager, click on linetype on "swale-line". Picking on the linetype name opens the Select Linetype dialog box. These standard linetypes are located in an external file named acad.lin. After you select which linetype to load then ACAD moves to Select Linetype dialog box appears. Just select the loaded linetype and ok. Hope this helps - John

 

[zennis]

My issue is the appearance of the swale-line. In one drawing it is dashed in the other it shows up with arrow and dots. My problem when loading/reloading acad.lin is that the swale-line linetype is not an option to choose to reload (which I am sure this linetype is not in the standard acad.lin file and is a custom linetype).

When I go to the linetype manager swale-line in one drawing the appearance box shows it as dashed and in the other drawing in the linetyped manager swale-line is arrow and dots.

So long question short, how can I change the appearance?
Thanks for earlier replys.

 

[000rpm]

If I'm understanding you correctly, you want to have the "swale-line" layer's linetype be the arrow and dots in both drawings. I also assume the linetype for the layer "swale-line" is defined the same in both drawings (by this I mean the linetype name).

Under these assumptions the easiest way to do this would be to use the RENAME command.

1. Go into the drawing you wish to change, enter the RENAME command and change the layer name "swale-line" to "swale-line_old", change the linetype's name similarly.

2. Exit the RENAME command, QSAVE the drawing.

3. Go into the drawing that is shown correctly and copyclip a line entity that is on the "swale-line" layer and has the correct linetype, paste it into the 1st drawing (after you paste it you can erase it right away).

4. Isolate the "swale-line_old" layer, highlight all of the entities on that layer and change their layer property to "swale-line".

Once you turn on all your layers, the entities should have a new (same as the good drawing) linetype.

HTH,

Rick

 

[zennis]

Thank you OOOrpm (Rick). Not exactly sure what those cookbook instructions did, but that did provide the solution I was looking for, again thank you.

 

[chicopee]

Have try match property which will not solve your "global" question; otherwise pick to highlight all dashed lines and change your linetype to"arrow and dot" linetype.