Creating Complex Linetypes with Special Characters Part 2

This section will show you how to use the character map to create linetypes in AutoCAD. Saving out to a text file then with the Unicode symbol to depict ditch lines in a drawing. You can use any symbol in the character map just be aware that the justification of the fonts may need to be moved depending on the symbol used.

[@edwanbatista799]

My arrow becomes a question mark when I explode it....

[@monicazam5242]

Great it's so useful. Thanks!

[@zoltansomlyai8771]

Dear Sam! I tried to make my costum linetype as you described but the result is different from the one i drew. When i change the polylines linetype for the one i made its much smaller and disproportionate. Do you know what can be the problem? The linetype scale is set to 1.

[@cathiemiller3423]

Same problem. It seems to the linetype scale. i think we are using metric and not got the length correct.

[@macogars]

CHARACTERS ALWAYS seem to aim towards the axis X, no getting around?

[@stevewitman]

In the case of flow direction arrows, like in this example, you should open the .lin file, delete ",u=0" ns re-save and re-load the file to prevent AutoCAD from rotating the direction of the text, arrows in this case, to a "readable" orientation. After that, you may still need to reverse the direction of you line if all the arrows are pointing the wrong direction. In most cases you would keep the default u=0 for regular text that you would like to automatically orient in a readable direction.

[@JTCAD]

Nice 👍🏻

[@devansh3330]

When I create line type arrow is not select. only two line is select.

[@hendrafaizalrazali9317]

U have to x explode the symbol first

[@georiz3493]

Brother u need to change Single text line form multitext line using symbol,

[@Pgan803]

Why you choose line length as 1.5 units. Why not 5 or 10 ?

[@ceciliagobbi1735]

TY!