Thanks again to Wendell for hosting a most excellent site. Anyway, on to my CAD question.
I'm using LDD 3 (yes, from 2002).
The company has a custom stonewall block that looks like this:
I can draw these only as special lines. For a line coder like myself, this is driving me to drink. I'd like to be able to line code these figures in the field, or even draw them in LDD as Polylines, but the LDD default stone wall linetype are these eggs:
What I want to know is how to instruct LDD to assign the custom SW block to be used in figures, polylines, layer linetypes, etc. Thanks in advance for any help.
The key is to recreate your stone wall block as an AutoCad Shape file and then incorporate that into a complex linetype. Email me the custom stone wall block and I will try to create a corresponding shape file and complex linetype.
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I managed to re-create the block as an AutoCAD shape file and incorporate the shape file into a complex linetype. AutoCAD 2000 insists on starting linetypes with a line or dot, so there are small dots along the linetype near the ends of the "stones". Anyone know how to get around this?
>... Anyone know how to get around this?
I would use a line that is absolutely minuscule to start off with instead of a dot.
I noticed those dots when I inserted the files (it works beautifully by the way; great job.)
The scale was too large as well, I suspect that may have something to do with the native scale of the file I sent you being 1"=40'. The walls seemed to be about 4 times too large. My bad on that one.
The scale isn't really that big a deal; I typically custom scale down my figures based on the drawing. On a boundary drawing I may leave the SW's larger so they show up better as the bound. For a topo, I'll usually shrink them down to reduce the "busy-ness" of the drawing.
If it was possible to hide the dots under the figure of the block itself, that would be perfect. Or, can that dot be put on a non-plot layer in the block?
Anyway, thanks again for the great work.
AutoCAD insists on having a line or at least a dot for the beginning of a complex linetype. Now that I have an idea what to do with the scale, I will try to tweak the scale and align the stones within the linetype to obscure the dots.
