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John Connor 
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 Topic: Linetype problem
Posted: 15.Apr.2012 at 18:00 |
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You should consider changing your profile to reflect your use of AutoCAD 2011 and not r14.
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"Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance." <<AutoCAD 2015>>
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zippypinhead
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Posted: 15.Apr.2012 at 04:14 |
John, After thinking about it for a bit, maybe I "bumped" the linetype box while fumbling around with the layer property filter dialog box.... I hadn't used it for a while and had to goof around with it for a bit to get it to work for me. Handy feature for a lot of my drawings. I'll sometimes wind up with more than 200 layers on a more complicated drawing.... Edited to add: Although I've been using AutoCad2011 for about a year, I still miss my old R14... Some of the "features" they've added just slow me down. The old layer control dialog box was well ingrained in my brain. Habits are hard to change.
Edited by zippypinhead - 15.Apr.2012 at 04:18
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John Connor
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Posted: 15.Apr.2012 at 01:01 |
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Reset the "linetype" command how?
Commands can sometimes be made inoperative using the UNDEFINE command. Usually that is intentional unless it was included as a part of a custom lisp routine that failed to REDEFINE the command before exiting.
I have worked, from time to time, from home for various clients but it is not the norm. One has to be fairly disciplined to work from home effectively. You must be one of those people.
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zippypinhead
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Posted: 15.Apr.2012 at 00:09 |
Sorry guys. I guess that I wasn't clear in my second post that the suggestion to re-set the "linetype" command worked a charm. I still have no idea how I fat fignered the problem in the first place. To change the linetype seems to take some very specific keystrokes. Hard to do it by mistake. There again, I have been know to do some "drunk drawing"...  This forum is a wonderful resource for a "solo act" like me. When not traveling, I work from home and have no one to turn to and ask, "Hey, how come AutoCad is doing ____?" So, thanks again. And before you guys start saying, "Must be nice to work from home..." Be careful what you wish for.... Since Christmas I've had exactly 4 days without doing at least some work. And those days were spent in hospital. An average week for me lately has been 70 hours.
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heinsite
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Posted: 11.Apr.2012 at 23:09 |
Is this happening in *every* file you work on now, or just in this one particular file?
Have you run an AUDIT or a RECOVER operation on this problem file?
Dave.
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Dave Hein, P.E.
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Kona International Airport
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John Connor
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Posted: 11.Apr.2012 at 11:50 |
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The "empty the cache" trick will not solve a linetype problem.
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"Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance." <<AutoCAD 2015>>
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dragona
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Posted: 11.Apr.2012 at 11:23 |
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Or you can restart the computer, then empty the cache to try?
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I heart which I could not help him
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John Connor
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Posted: 05.Apr.2012 at 12:14 |
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Lisp is a programming language. Some lisp routines are included with full AutoCAD. Example: FLATTEN which can be found in Express Tools. I'm very surprised that someone who has used AutoCAD for 20 years has not heard of AutoLisp or Lisp.
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"Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance." <<AutoCAD 2015>>
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heinsite
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Posted: 05.Apr.2012 at 06:16 |
If you didn't run a LISP routine then you probably did a linetype override earlier in your work and just forgot about it.
Strange things happen when we get in a hurry! 
Dave.
Edited by heinsite - 05.Apr.2012 at 06:17
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Dave Hein, P.E.
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Kona International Airport
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zippypinhead
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Posted: 05.Apr.2012 at 04:48 |
Hell, I don't even know what a lisp routine is. Much less a custom one.  Although I've been using versions of AutoCad for almost twenty years, I'm a cave man. I tend to only learn enough to get my work done.... When I have projects stacked up, (like now) a 70 hour workweek is like a vacation....
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