Topic: trimming multilines

[ELOQUINTET]

someone in the past created multilines for drawing various elements like 5/8" gwd and our shades. they want me to use these multilines for drawing my details but i haven't used mlines that often  and my only complaint is that i don't know how to trim multilines and i often need to. can somebody help me with trimming them. also if one was to create multiline styles and save them in a menu what file would they be located in. this person embedded the custom multilines in his menu file and there are some we don't use anymore so i'd like to go into this file and tidy up a bit so that would be nice to know for the future as well. any help would really be appreciated. thanks

[ronjonp]

Don't use Mlines....IMO they are the most un-editable object in AutoCAD.

Ron

[MP]

Yep, I always thought mlines were cool, yet half baked. We don't use 'em.

[ELOQUINTET]

i've always thought so too but someone developed some pretty nice ones here and my manager swears by them. in some applications here they work well. for instance, we use one for showing our shade on location plans with a box then lines getting gadually smaler to show the tube but for doing details they're no good because details require too much modification.

[hyposmurf]

My CAD lecturer used to express his hatred of multilines.Im glad someone else has brought this up,thought he might have been a bit mislead.

[daron]

They're not so bad. MLEDIT is the only editing tool. The thing I like about them is their clean up ability. One suggestion would be when you've got it all drawn up as good as you can get it: EXPLODE the things, then continue with your trimming and such. They have there purpose, but not for very long.

[ELOQUINTET]

true daron but exploding can be dangerous if you accidently explode the dotted hatch instead of the mline  

[Keith™]

I have 3 mlines I use on a regular basis. Since I am not using ADT regularly, I have devised mlines to represent kitchen cabinets, vanity cabinets, and shelf-n-rod in closets. These work wonderful in these instances and since it is soooooo fast to use them, if I need to change the location I can redraw them FASTER than I can edit them...so what I can't trim them .. boo hoo hoo ...just like you can't trim a block, doesn't mean you shouldn't use them .. they have their purpose and when you finally find it, you will wonder why you ever thought differently.

[craigr]

I know nothing about MLines

From your description, are they like the old 'Trace' lines?

craigr

[Birdy]

<bump>
I never used them.... until two days ago.  Seems like they *may* be helpful to us, but the jury's still out.
I've created 6 multiline styles to show various plywood we use for our cabinetry.  Might be a significant productivity boost for us.

The question I have is this:
How can I get these to load automatically?   Every time I reboot acad, I gotta reload each style seperately.
All the styles are in acad.mln on our server's customization directory. (Where all the awesome swamp acquierd lisp files are)

TIA

[ELOQUINTET]

ummm we just have them existing in a template

[Birdy]

( 8(|)  DOH!
Didn't even think of that.  Good enough.  It'll work for new drawings.
Tanks!

[ELOQUINTET]

or you could create a dump block (for existing dwgs) which would consist of your mlines so upon insertion you'd have them all.

[grush]

I hate MLINEs. They stink. I use the good old DLINE from R11/R12. Look under my name to find the lisp. I havent figured out how to attach it to the message & it is too long to post. I use it all the time & it works great.

Pete

[ELOQUINTET]

yes but dlines too are limited. i don't use multilines myself but some here swear by them...yuck