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Top: Simple linetype consisting of dashes, dots, and gaps.
#AUTOCAD COMMANDS AFFECTING LINETYPE HOW TO#
So all the individual LT scales are set to one and the global LT scale is set to one also.In this post learn how to create your own custom linetypes in BricsCAD ®. So you can see that everything has been returned back to normal. So what I'll do quickly, is just hit escape select this line here and it's a right click, properties and we'll just change that back to one, and press enter so that it's back to it's original settings, close properties palette and hit escape there. Not a global LT scale change, where you just type "LTSCALE" and change it globally within the drawing. So it is an individual linetype scale per object in this case. Revisit the next line down and then right click and go go properties again.
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If I close the properties palette, hit escape. So if I go to this one here now and I right click and I go to properties you'll see that's at nought point five. So what we've done there is we've changed the individual linetype scale of one particular line. And can you see where the dashes and the spaces are now smaller than the original ones. Close the properties palette and hit escape. And now I'm going to change the linetype scale just for that individual line to, nought point five. I'm going to right click and I'm going to go to properties. I'm going to go for that one there again on the hinge. And you can see the dashes return back to their original state. Press enter, and change that back to one in the box. So LT scale, type it in like we did before. And what I'm going to do is change the LT scale back to one. So, why does that say one and yet the global LT scale is at nought point five? That's because they are two different values. Now that's the individual linetype scale for that particular line in the drawing. What would the LT scale say? It would say one. So if I went to one of these lines here on the hinge, did a right click and went to properties. So now our LT scale is at nought point five. You'll notice that the dashes and the spaces become half their original size. If I press enter now, keep an eye on the dashed lines in the drawing. So what happens if I change that to 50% by changing the value to nought point five. So basically it means in its entirety at the moment, it's 100% sized. It always is in any AutoCAD drawing, if it hasn't been changed. So just select "LTSCALE" and you'll see at the moment that our linetype scale factor is a default of one. So let's have a look at doing it globally first and the quickest way to do this is just type "LTSCALE" linetype scale, like that and you can see it comes up on the suggestion menu on the dynamic input. Now the linetype scale can be changed globally in the whole drawing, or like in the previous video you can do it individually for individual objects as well. But anything dashed or dashed and dotted can be affected by what is known as the linetype scale or LT scale. This would not affect a continuous linetype because it's continuous. Now what you can do is you can make those dashes bigger and smaller. You'll also notice on the nut and bolt that the hidden thread line is also dashed on that arc as well. You'll notice on the hinge on the left, the horizontal lines are dashed. Now you'll notice on this particular drawing that we do have some dashed linetypes.
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And in the previous video we looked at object and layer properties and how they work within your AutoCAD drawings. We're staying in our object layer properties.