Linestyles

Linestyles are scaled differently in Draft and AutoCAD. The AutoCAD linetype scale is ignored, so dash and gap lengths may not match between the two systems. However, the linestyles listed in the table will have a similar pattern of gaps and dashes.

Note:
User defined linestyles are now available in Draft. AutoDRAFT will export (and maintain) these linestyles correctly in AutoCAD.

In order to export any user defined linestyles, AutoDRAFT creates a file called pdmsuser.lin in the local directory. This file is only used by AutoDRAFT during the current session, after which it is deleted. You should note that AutoDRAFT will not work if a file called pdmsuser.lin already exists in the local directory.

If you are pre-loading any user defined linestyles into AutoCAD (for example, via the acad.lsp file) which use the same names as any of your Draft user-defined linestyles exported via AutoDRAFT, the pre-loaded linestyles will be used in preference to Draft ones.