Rule of Thumb for Linetype Scales for Dashed Lines

[NoWittyHandle]

What rule of thumb should be used for setting linetype scales when using hidden, center, dashed, and phantom lines in AutoCAD? For example, if I am drawing at a 1" = 10' scale, what linetype scale should I use for a dashed line? Thank you for your responses.

 

[CDH]

Usually your ltscale should be set to the same as your drawing scale. Some people prefer to set it to half of the drawing scale.

 

[NoWittyHandle]

So for a 1" = 10' drawing scale, I would set the linetype scale to 120?

 

[CarlB]

Depends. Does it look the way you'd like it? It appears you're using an architectural (inch) units to suggest a LTSCALE of 120, if using a decimal scale you'd use something closer to 10.

If you are plotting from layout mode/paper space, you could use PSLTSCALE set to 1 and LTSCALE set to 1 (or less depending on preference).

 

[zuccus]

Eric,

I typically use about 3/4 of my dimscale. Dimscale = Drawing scale.

Zuccus