Problem

Converting Linestyles from Metric to English

Looking for a way to convert a custom line style library from metric to imperial units. Some linestyles can be converted with not much problems, such as a single line with dashes and gaps. The problem resides with the point. The point is imported with a fence through MicroStation. The size of the symbol is dependent on the original size. We need to globally scale all of the linestyles from metric to imperial. Is there a way to do this without recreating the linestyle resource file?

Solution

Using the custom linestyle resource manager copy the existing linestyles into a new resource file. You will need to change the dash and gap sizes accordingly. The next step would be to create a new point symbol using a file that is using Imperial units. Then remove the old point symbol with the new one. There is no utility that will automatically convert it from one measurement to the other. This is the best way of doing this with out doing it completely from Scratch.