Manage linetypes

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Line type is a visual property assigned to geometric objects.

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Line types can be a pattern of dashes, dots,

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text and symbols or an unbroken continuous line.

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The current line type setting defines the

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current appearance of all new geometric objects.

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Before you can use different line types, you must load them into the drawing

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on the home ribbon

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in the properties panel, expand the line type drop down

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here. You can see the line types that have already been loaded into the drawing,

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select other

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to open the line type manager dialogue.

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The panel in the lower portion of the dialogue lists,

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the line types that have already been loaded,

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you can expand the line type filters drop down

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to filter the line types in the list to show only those

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line types that have already been used or just those that are

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xref dependent

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leave this set to show all line types.

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Notice that you can also select invert filter to filter the

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list based on the opposite of the criteria you select.

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You can also use buttons on the right to load additional line types,

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delete selected line types or make a selected line type.

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The current line type,

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when you select the continuous line type and then click delete,

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you see a dialogue informing you that the line type was not deleted.

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The message in the dialogue explains that you cannot

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delete the bilayer by block or continuous line types.

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You also cannot delete the current line type,

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an X

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ref dependent line type or any line type that has already been used in the drawing.

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Click. OK. To close this dialogue.

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When you select show details the details section

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of the line type manager dialogue is displayed

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here, you can see additional properties

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and adjust the line type scaling factors.

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For example,

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the global scale factor is the scaling factor assigned for all line types.

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While the current object scale is the line type scale for all newly created objects.

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The resulting scale is the global scale

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factor multiplied by the object scale factor.

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Also when you use paper space units for scaling is selected

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line types are scaled identically in paper space and model space.

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This is very useful when working with multiple viewpoints,

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click hide details to hide the details section.