LINETYPES SETUP

CAME-CMEA has a built in table for linetype matching. ME10 linetype names are always in English even if you are running a French, Germano or Italian version of ME10. AutoCAD scheme is a bit tricky: as you probably know there are some special files with linetypes definitions (ie ACAD.LIN). Unfortuntely this scheme is language dependent, it is to say that except for the “CONTINUOUS” linetype you have different names for different countries.

Since CAME-CMEA release 6.11 Linetype correspondance is interrelated with the AutoCAD language. Exact matching depends on the following parameter (AcMeConv.ini)

LinguaAutoCAD=XXX

Possible values are:

ENG (English)

ITA (Italian – AutoCAD 2000)

ITA14 (Italian – AutoCAD 14)

GER (German)

FRE (French)

ESP (Spanish)

according to the following table

ENG	ITA	ITA14	GER	FRE	ESP
English	Italian	Italian rel. 14	German	French	Spanish
Border	Bordo	Confine	Rand	Bordure	morse_g
Center	Centro	Linea-Lineetta	Mitte	Axes	Centro
Dashdot	Trattopunto	Tratto-punto	Strichpunkt	tiretpt	trazo_y_punto
Dashed	Tratteggiata	Tratteggiata	Strichlinie	Interrompu	Trazos
Divide	Dividi	Tratto-punti	Getrennt	Divise	Morse_d
Dot	Punto	Punteggiata	Punkt	Pointille	Puntos
Hidden	Nascosta	Nascosta	Verdeckt	Cache	Lìneas_ocultas
Phantom	Fantasma	Linea-lineette	Phantom	Fantome	Vals

Next table explains how your translator matches linetypes (AutoCAD English International)

AutoCAD	ME10	Model
CONTINUOUS	0 - SOLID	_________________________
BORDER	4 - DASH_DOT_DOT	__ __ . __ __ . __ __ . __ __ .
CENTER	6 - CENTER_DASH	____ _ ___ _ ___ _ ___ _ ___
DASHDOT	3 - DASH_DOT	__ . __ . __ . __ . __ . __ . __ .
DASHED	1 - DASH	__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
DIVIDE	7 - CENTER_DASH_DASH	____ . . ____ . . ____ . . ____ . .
DOT	2 - DOT	. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
HIDDEN	9 - SHORT_DASH	_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
PHANTOM	8 - PHANTOM	____ _ _ ____ _ _ ____ _ _ ____
DASHED_X2	5 - LONG_DASH
DIVIDE_X2	10 - LONG_DOTTED
CENTER_X2	11 - LONG_DASH_SHORT_DASH

INGOMBRI	7 - CENTER_DASH_DASH
ASSI	6 - CENTER_DASH
TRATTEGGIO	1 - DASH

A good translator should allow the user setting his own linetypes. This is actually necessary when you translate from AutoCAD to ME10 in case of out-of-standard linetypes or drawings using a mixed country depending linetypes.

In both cases you have to force some linetypes to exactly match an ME10 standard linetype. This is achieved in two steps.

1)Force the non-standard AutoCAD linetype in a standard linetype.

2)Translate the standard linetype to ME10 according to the previous table.

You can do that using the setup program or working directly on the “AcMeConv.ini” file.

There are 10 customizable variables for non-standard - user linetypes. Each non-standard linetype will be converted in a standard linetype and then translated using the previous table.

Syntax is quite simple: every "TIPOLINEA_X_PERS" matches the "TIPOLINEA_X_AutoCAD" where X range from 1 to 10

ex.

TIPOLINEA_2_PERS=GEN3A

TIPOLINEA_2_AutoCAD=DASHED

Every entity with "GEN3A" linetype is translated using the AutoCAD "DASHED" and then the "DASH" ME10 Linetype

Using the setup dialog box you can adjust three kind of linetypes.

Write in edit box the linetype name according to ME10 and AutoCAD Linetypes definition system.

TIP

You can map more then three Linetypes. Opening the ".INI" file you can see there are 10 linetypes you can match.