The feature of reversing the direction of an object was introduced in AutoCAD 2010 version. In most of the cases reversing the direction of an arc, line or polyline may seem useless because the symmetry makes it practically impossible to distinguish between original and reversed object.
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Loads a linetype whose definition exists in a file. The acad.lin file contains the standard linetypes. The Select Linetype File dialog box (a standard file selection dialog box) is displayed. Enter or select the file in which the linetype you want to load is stored. Set Sets the current linetype for objects that will be drawn subsequently. There are many settings for linetype scales - but the centerline looks good when you have PSLTSCALE on and that is a Autodesk linetype. I would suggest giving the chain line (just the chain line entity) a LTscale of 0.1 and see how that looks (assuming you had it at 1.0). That will narrow the issue down to the chain linetype.
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But take an example of linetype containing text as shown in the image below. In this case, the reversing of direction suddenly starts to make sense as a reversed linetype will have text in the correct orientation.
A linetype is a repeating pattern of dashes, dots, and blank spaces displayed in a line or a curve. You assign linetypes to objects either by layer or by specifying the linetype explicitly, independent of layers. All objects created using the current linetype is displayed in the Properties inspector. If the current linetype is set to ByLayer, objects are created with the linetype assigned to.
Direction reversal will also have a visible effect on polylines having varying widths at its end points.
This article will help you in understanding direction reversal tool of AutoCAD, I will explain this tool with the help of linetype shown in the image above.
Reversing direction of linetype:
To start Reverse command Select reverse tool from expanded modify panel of the home tab or use its command equivalent REVERSE and click on the line which you want to reverse and press enter.
The direction of the line will be reversed as shown in the image above. The reversal of direction would mean the reversal of order in which line was made.
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You can repeat the same method with arc, polyline, spline and helix as well. But if you try to use this command on a polyline with varying width at its ends then you may not get expected results.
Reversing direction of Polyline:
On reversing a polyline like the one shown below the order will be changed but not the direction of the polyline. To change order as well as the direction of this polyline you need to change the PLINEREVERSEWIDTHS system variable to 1, by default its value will be set to 0.
Once you have changed this system variable the reverse command will reverse order as well as the direction of your polyline curve, as shown in the image below.
You can also use the reverse tool from polyline edit command. For using reverse option double click on polyline and select reverse from the command line as shown in the image below.
Do you have questions related to this tip? Let me know in comments below.
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