LTSCALE AND PSLTSCALE

It's not an "either/or" situation. You can set your LT to 48 AND PSLT to 1. Are you working in inches?

Your preferred LTSCALE gives that away : )

It depends on whether or not you want to have all of your non-CONTINUOUS lines appear identically in viewports with differing scales. If so, PSLTSCALE=1, LTSCALE a small value; if not, PSLTSCALE=0 and LTSCALE = your Paper Space value. ___

I have no idea. My *preference* is PSLTSCALE = 1, LTSCALE = 0.33, and that's what I use; I couldn't care less what the "most common practice" is, since my drawings are meant to please *me* and *my clients.* ___

LTSCALE=35, PSLTSCALE=1

When you switch to model space, you must change LTSCALE back to a larger value. Most experienced users use LISP routines to handle such housekeeping. ___

OK, Paul. Now you have me peaked. Why do you have your LTSCALE set to something that looks good in PS but not in MS?

Because that's the way it works with PSLTSCALE set to 1. If your viewports are scaled to, say, 1:48 or 1:96, then it's convenient to work in Model Space set to larger value (we use 16 and 32 for what will be plotted at 1:48 and 1:96, respectively). When you switch to a layout (Paper Space), and if your layouts are set up to plot at 1:1, then your scaled viewports will correctly reflect identical-appearing linetypes with PSLTSCALE=1 and LTSCALE set to a small value; as I said we use 1/3 or 0.33.

If you're getting different results, then I don't know what you might be doing thats different, unless you're not plotting your layouts at 1:1. ___

I got about 10 years working on Autocad software, so not as many as some, but more than others and every place i have worked, i have talked into setting PSLTSCALE to 1 and LTSCALE to 1 as well, and then locking your viewport and working through to floating model space, you can zoom and pan and do all the things you need to do and you never have to 'SET' your line type scaling again. or forget to change it back when you come out of model space and plot with it set wrong so everything shows up as a solid line.

Just my .02 worth.

It's all personal preference. Set you LTSCALE to whatever you want. Always keep The PSLTSCALE at 1. When you plot, the scale of you drawing (and the lines) should be dictated by the sale of the mode space viewport, so when you plot from paperspace, you are alway plotting at a 1:1 scale. If you are not getting the same lines in MS as in PS viewport, yo have to turn on Linetype generation. That's all, there's no need t go around your elbow to get to your a*

It's part of the PEDIT command. HELP should, well, help you figure it out. ___

There's also the PLINEGEN variable (one of those system variables whose name is also a command)... ___

Yes. AutoCAD can't correct anyone's errors or oversights by itself. ___