When doing batting insulation is there anyway to define its dimensions? For example, i want the width to be 150mm from center, making it 300mm thick
I know i can adjust the size view of it with the annotation scale, but i would like to be able to define and exact dimension instead, not the scale. This would be useful when drawing wall detail.
We have a number of layers pre-set up to display the batting linetype at various scales:-
However when printing a "25mm" thick version of the batting linetype drawing it prints as a straight line. Our other scales are fine.
The linetype views correctly in model and paper space just not when printing.
Trying to create an insulation batting line (15 centimeters wide), in the model it looks okay (actually it goes a tiny little bit beyond the borders, but it is good enough for me at this stage). In the viewports however it is much wider (I would say, it is 10-15 times wider than expected).
My setup:
LTSCALE - 1.0
CELTSCALE - 1.0
MSLTSCALE - 1.0
We inherited an AutoCAD DWG for a project and were plagued with the warning about missing SHX files every time the file opened. We could not obtain the SHX file, so ran the purge LISP routine from here [URL]
Now, we don't get the warning any more, but the insulation batting (and several other styles) that previously displayed correctly now just display as a a row of dots.
I'm more or less happy with annotation scaling, apart from the mysterious hatching problems that are not the issue of this message.
But there is a major annotative scaling issue with batting / insulation lines. Insulation lines should NOT change with annotative scaling ! A 4" insulation layer shouldn't become 16" just because i'm printing in bigger scale !
How can I copy a linetype definition from a drawing to the linetype definition file?
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Product Design Suite 2013
Also be sure to pick the 'aligned dimension' method and not the 'linear dimension'. I hope that works in Revit as it does in AutoCAD.
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Why do I loose the slashes?
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I am using Map 3D 2013
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AutoCad LT 2014
my linetype scales in model space look good, when i go to paper space to print the linetypes are huge and way out of wack. what is my problem?
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Short Line (roughly 1/3 length of long line)
Space
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( ______ __ ______ )
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