The Release 5 NCS 4.0 and separate NCS 5.0 linetypes are all normalized with standardized values, ONE textstyle (font) reference, and ONE. lin files allows you to customize a new, standardized linetype in no time. That and the built-in, in-file documentation in the. It includes a bunch of standardized linetype prototypes too. To put that chore in perspective there are 1000 lines in the file. God No! I’m not going to count the linetype resources in the new Release 5 for AutoCAD Civil 3D. Remember you can always DWF it or PDF it. Yeah, we even supply the ACAD resource drawings so you can preview what the linetypes look like.

The supplied AutoCAD linetype resources also include a huge pile of other common civil engineering and survey graphic standards versions we gathered up from State DOTs and many other places. Our Production Solution products come with National CAD Standards NCS 4.0 and NCS 5.0 linetype resources. Some of my readers may be millennials who’ve never seen a rotary phone except in an old movie…not so funny to them…but I believe there’s got to be an App for that that mimics a rotary phone.

In early April (and now in October) we all have try and laugh at the absurd – our pain avoidance is human. Maybe someone will mashup a rotary iPhone 6 pic for next April 1. If your smartphone worked liked AutoCAD linetype, it would have a dialing rotator on the back. But come on - the whole Linetype method (and what we publish) still remains based on primitive Neolithic “pen” based vectors. No, I’m not ignoring that somewhat improved linetype “plan readability” got added and cleaned up in the last couple of ACAD releases. Have we given up hope of any reprieve? To Be or Not to Be I think we’d all agree that Autodesk hasn’t really done much to improve how this underlying core piece of ACAD technology works for way too long. If you’re an AutoCAD user, you’ve been wrestling with Linetypes since day one.

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