turn off LTSCALE?

[drwilson]

Drawing setup keeps setting my LTSCALE which I want to remain at 1. I have "don't set LTSCALE in drawing setup" checked in my general settings. under drawing setup settings, I have "drawing setup source" set to use dwg template, & template LTS set to 1 but it keeps throwing an LTSCALE on the drawing.

How can I disable this?

[site admin]

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[tstrickland]

I don't think this has been resolved.
FWIW, I always set ltscale to 1 everytime before plotting.
They seem to be more geared to the old-timey users that don't use paperspace.
It's been that way for at least ten years.

[site admin]

If you are using paperspace, the LTSCALE set by the Drawing Setup is correct for Model Space. The way to control this for Paper Space is to set PSLTSCALE (paper space ltscale) to 0 (zero) or off. This will give you the results you are looking for in Paper and allow you to see your linetypes in Model as well.

[drwilson]

Thanks. I really want to keep LTSCALE, PSLTSCALE & MSLTSCALE all set to 1 if I can.

We have to provide base maps for Civil 3D & I have everyone in our company in four offices in the habit of working this way, plus, with the annotative scaling, it works pretty well and having come from C3D where the anno scale drives everything, we still have stuff in our drawings that is looking to that setting for scale. I can set it with acaddoc.lsp. I just figured when I checked off "set LTSCALE at drawing setup" it wouldn't change the template settings & it does.

BTW, I can't say enough about how much better Carlson is for survey than Civil 3D. It's like the fog has finaly cleared. It just works.... What a concept.

[drwilson]

I don't think this has been resolved.
FWIW, I always set ltscale to 1 everytime before plotting.
They seem to be more geared to the old-timey users that don't use paperspace.
It's been that way for at least ten years.

Thanks Terry, I've used Land Desktop, Civil 3D & now Carlson. While I think Carlson is by far the best software for survey, there are bits and pieces of all of them I like.

Being able to set that ANNOSCALE at the bottom in MS and have it drive all your scale settings is something I like.

[R Stillwell]

Under Drawing Setup change your LTSCALE to 0 and it will stay set to 1 regardless of what you set the drawing scale to.

[drwilson]

Under Drawing Setup change your LTSCALE to 0 and it will stay set to 1 regardless of what you set the drawing scale to.

That did the trick. Thanks!

[site admin]

you would actually want to go to Settings>Carlson Configure>Drawing Setup and set this up so it hold for future drawings as well.

[drwilson]

What I've been doing is opening the dwt file that I have created for Carlson & then doing what you've suggested. Then I save my CFG file out.

Then I copy the dwt & settings around to the different offices/servers & send an email out for all to import settings.

Is that the best way for multiple users/offices? It took me a while to figure out what was in the template vs. CFG. I'm still a little fuzzy on that but... it's coming.