you are official my hero!!!  this makes my job soooo much easier

 

thanks

this is exactly what i'm after. ive copied your linetypes into notepad and have loaded them into a dwg however when I draw a multiline, its filled in like a polyline? When I draw the multiline, it looks just as the screenshot of yours do but as soon as I end the line, it fills in?

any ideas?

 

Of course, there are the "issues" that text-containing complex linetypes can have, such as overrunning a corner when the text part falls in the "wrong" relationship to it, the continuous portions at the ends [I used Stretch to minimize them down to nearly nothing at the right ends], etc.   uploads/353260/MlineUtilities.txt

[Note that the system won't let me upload a .lin file, so I changed the filetype extension to .txt, which you'll need to change back in order to use the linetype definitions.]

fire alarm 50mm

comms 200mm

submains 300mm

 

I know you can put text in linetypes but this looks messy, to my eye anyway and wondered if there was a way of putting the text within a multiline and as you say, plotted at regular intervals

 

hope that makes a bit more sense

But seriously, some more information, please.  Are you looking for something that works like a complex linetype, so that the same text element occurs at regular intervals along the Multiline?  That may not be possible -- in a very quick look, it seems MLine Styles can be defined to contain simple on-off linetypes and/or complex linetypes containing Shapes, but not those containing text [but maybe that's different in newer versions than I have here.]

 

If your Mlines are always zero-justified, a routine could probably be made easily enough that would make a Polyline copy along the same defining points, to which you could assign a complex linetype with text elements but presumably no linear elements between them.

 

Or maybe you're thinking of something else....

 

THANKS