This command converts polylines into special lines by adding the appropriate symbol onto the polyline, such as railroad, hedge, stonewall or telephone lines. Carlson has defined several line types as shown below. You can create custom lines by selecting the ? or another line type, which then prompts you for the text symbol to use. The size and spacing are set by the Annotate Defaults routine. This routine breaks the polyline in order to fit in the symbol. Broken polylines cannot be used by the Area command, and are difficult to edit. Consider using this command towards the end of your project.
Change Polyline Linetype command creates actual AutoCAD
linetypes
that are applied to the
selected entities.
Select Carlson Linetype dialog
Select the polyline(s) to convert.
Select objects: pick the polylines
Pulldown Menu Location: Annotate > Line Types
Keyboard Command: pltype
Prerequisite: Polylines
File Names: \lsp\linetype.lsp, \lsp\cogoutil.arx