Monday, April 16, 2007

CAD Question

Anyone out there in the world ever have a CAD drawing that doesn't display entities with dotted or dashed linetypes as dotted or dashed? The items are on the layer we think they are on, that layer has the proper linetype loaded, it appears to not matter what machine, file, or version of CAD.

It is not related to LTScale, as I have tried the entire range of values.

I have one student who has the gift for producing this effect and I have so far been unable to backtrack it to the cause. Is it possible there's something like a "displaylinetype" system variable? Although I am certain he hasn't ever typed DISPLAYLINETYPE [ENTER] 0.

I'm stumped.

2 comments:

BWard said...

there's PSLTSCALE which is LTScale for paperspace, then there's CELTYPE which is a the system variable for default linetype, there's OBSCUREDLTYPE which sets linetype/scale independent on zoom level

did you try loading the file using a different windows account? maybe there's some preference saved to his/her account only that keeps doing things

David said...

SO, that'd be...

No, no, & no.

Also no, but I can't think why that would matter - and also doesn't particularly help that student.