Custom Linestlye Scaling

I am having trouble understanding custom linestyle scaling.

I have a line style dgnlib that is loaded via MS_DGNLIBLIST_LINESTYLES                  < $(CIVIL_ORGANIZATION_STANDARDS)Dgnlib/Line Styles/*Line Style*.dgnlib.

This loads the delivered line styles as well as my custom linestyles.

I would like my custom line styles set up so that they draw to the proper scale when utilizing Annotation Scale (1=20' is our most common scale).  I've found that in most cases I need to scale up my custom linesyles by 2.0 to draw properly.  I set this up in my levels dgnlib so that the levels utilizing my custom linestyles are set with a bylevel Scale Factor of 2.0.

I would like to get them to the proper scale in my line stye dgnlib so that the scale factor can be left at 1.0 in my level dgnlib.  Is there a way to scale them up by 2.0 in my line style dgnlib?

I would like that if I use any level to draw, but select a custom linestyle that it would draw at my desired scale without having to rely on selecting level with the bylevel scale factor of 2.0, or having to set the scale to 2.0 at the time of placement.

How can I scale my line styles up by 2.0 in my line style dgnlib?  There are also some other custom linestyles that I would like to scale down by something other than 2.0, so the same question would apply to them.

FYI, the linestlye were imported to the dgnlib from a rsc file.

  • I realized my dgn had pulled its line styles from an older version of my line style dgfnlib.  My current line style dgnlib is correct, but I thought a dgn's linestyles would be updated if a Update Standards from dgnlib was done. It turns out that the "Linestyle import todgn used C:\MFLD_Line_Styles.rsc" did what I wanted.  I did this in batch to most of my files on this slightly older project.

    Answer Verified By: Marc Thomas