For example, if the drawing is to be printed at 1:48 scale, the dashed lines in the drawing will have a linetype scale of about 48.
The Linetype Scale of a dashed line in my drawings is usually approximately the inverse of the scale of the viewport it's intended to be used in. To that end, I use a custom command that toggles LTSCALE as 1 or 999, i.e. In my drawings, LTSCALE is always 1, except when I want to snap to intersections of normally dashed lines. But usually the dashes won't show in modelspace, and it'll take a lot of work to fix that. Then the only thing you need to do is to cast your rda result to prcomp result that is known by ggbiplot. Notice the left side of the drive appears to have a continuous line type. The second shows the same area after printing. The first image shows dashed lines on both sides of the driveway as displayed in the dgn file. According to jlhoward you can use ggbiplot from the package with the same name. The issue is lines on the same level and with the same properties do not print the same. And in order to try to get linetypes to display properly at least in paperspace they'll have given a strange value to the LTSCALE variable, or strange Linetype Scale values to each dashed line, or some combination of the two that they've found makes dashed lines look right in paperspace. Believe it or not the hardest part, by far, is getting the text to align properly wrt the arrows. To solve that problem, my template file has Layouts set up for each sheet size I use, and I create new Layouts in a file by copying one of those rather than using the "New" option.įor another thing, files you get from other people will generally have PSLTSCALE=1 for all Layouts, because so few people are even aware of this conundrum. There's a PSLTSCALE for each Layout, and when you create a new Layout it will always have the diabolical PSLTSCALE=1 setting, even if all the other Layouts in the file have PSLTSCALE=0. But that's not easy to do.įor one thing, PSLTSCALE is not a single variable. I've always used PSLTSCALE=0, ever since they first introduced the concept of paperspace. If you do not want the annotation scale to affect linetypes when plotting from the Model tab, set the MSLTSCALE system variable to 0. This should then change the scaling throught all viewports and layout tabs automatically.But I'd like to understand why, when Help says "In general, PSLTSCALE is best set ON". Model Space Linetype Scale When you work in the Model tab, the annotation scale can affect linetype scaling. If the linetypes are too small or large when printed then to globally change these you can alter the linetype scale as you normally would in model space. Remember to regen the drawing in model space through the viewport. You can now crreate as many viewport as you like on any layout tab at any scale and they will look exactly the same. Repeat this procedure for each viewport you have. This should have changed the way your assigned linetype looks. Double a viewport to activate model space through paperspace and click view from the drop down menu and click regen.Type in LTSCALE, hit enter, type in 1 and hit enter. Make sure you are now in paperspace, and type PSLTSCALE, hit enter, type in 1 and hit enter.For test purposes, create two new viewports at 2 completley different scales so that you can see an obvious difference in the linetype scale.Construct you drawing as you normally would at 1:1, assign all your linestyles as normal and alter the scaling so that it looks ok in model space.Then set the PSLTSCALE variable from 0 to. To use paper space linetype scaling, relate LTSCALE to the plot scale i.e., 1:1 - so make LTSCALE 0.5 to 1.0. If you're plotting at 1:48, then LTSCALE might be 24 to 48.
Well no longer, if you are having the same problem then follow the procedure below In model space, the LTSCALE variable is related to the ultimate plot scale. In the past I have tried to find a happy medium for my scaling to cover all drawings. The problem I used to have was getting my linestyles to match no matter what my plotted scale was. It is sometime needed to produce large masterplans at one scale with inserts of that plan at a different scale on the same drawing or even on a seperate layout tab. These colors can be assigned either to a specific layer or to an individual object. Each entity of the drawing is assigned a color. This is something that bothered me for a long time now and caused much anxiety when trying to utilise model space and paper space properly for complex drawings. This area of the PLOT command controls the pen settings. For example, the line indicating a fence consists of a long dash with an 'X. The project is a survey set and the symbolic line types are showing up as continuous lines. I have hit a brick wall, and I am trying to figure out what our issue truly is.
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How to keep your linetype scales constant throughout your drawing irrespective of viewport size and scale. linetype Line Style not displaying correctly.