Linestyles export to Bricscad/Autocad

[Nicola Pozzobon]

Hi All
I am simply trying to be able to see the linework and symbols displayed in Autocad/Bricscad exactly how I see them in 12d.
At the moment when I export dxf or dwg from 12d and open them in Autocad/Bricscad I loose the styles.
For example the Water line -----W-----W----- becomes just solid.
Is there a way to convert the linestyl 4d file with the 12d styles into a .lin file or similar linetype file for CAD?
How would you go about doing this?
Cheers

[Graeme Winfield]

Hi Nicola

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The process for this one is from 12d do a Plan Plot to DWG with no Template or Mapping File, and any linestyles will be ‘exploded’ into individual elements. Then in Acad/Bcad you can use the exploded lines to create new linetype definitions and add to your .LIN file.

A DWT and probably a matching acadmf is require to be used when outputting the DWG.
(the layer colours and linetypes need to be already defined in the DWT)
The above quote was how to the DWG linetype definition to match what is in 12d model.

[Nicola Pozzobon]

Does that mean that if i want a DWT or .lin with all the linestyles i have in 12d (thousands, too many to count) i have to create a project with thousands of lines, one for each style, then export as said above, then rewrite thousands of linetypes using the exploded lines in Bricscad?

[Sam Cech]

@Nicola

you probably don't need thousands of them, using a acadmf map file we usually map data to layers in cad and the cad standards usually already have line types they want to use.... and when 12d model reads a DWG it will create basic linestyles for 12d to use which you can save and modify and add to your user folder files etc...

going the other way, I find is possible with some coding a script to convert 12d model linestyl.4d file which is just bunch of text well defined in the help
to a .lin which is also just a text file but each style is on a single delimited line...

I bet ChatGPT or one of the other AIs would be quite capable of making that conversion these days... there is also the 12dpl or in cad scripting to achieve this...

even after that you would need to check it as often the scaling is wrong or even when 12d auto creates them on reading a DWG, some of the settings you might want to work differently
sometimes the easiest thing is to print it to PDF so you can see the paper scale size in mm you want to achieve, and type it out in each file the best way it should be....

wouldn't it be nice if BricsCad could just read the 12d linestyl.4d file to generate its styles... lot more power in that format compared to .lin