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How do you make a line type arrow go clockwise? Nothing seems to make it go. It only wants to go counterclockwise.

Are you talking about a line type that draws arrows? If so, you can either draw the line and if you want it facing another direction, rotate it 180* at the middle. Or if you are drawing it from left to right and it's backwards, you can draw it from right to left and it "should" be the opposite direction.

If you talking about the direction for inputing lines, if you go to Settings, Angle Type, and toggle Clockwise, this should reverse your input method.

If these are not what your looking for could you elaborate a bit more as to what you need. Hope this helps

I know how to change the direction of a line that is of the line type arrow. What does not work is if I draw a circle with clockwise on or off it still makes the arrows go counterclockwise. How do you make the arrows go clockwise?

Unfortunately, I don't think there is a way to do this directly. What would be nice is if we could put a negitive number for the spacing and it would draw the linetype in the opposite direction. (hint hint Dave)

A workaround is to draw the circle/arcs you need save them as a symbol, then insert the symbols un-exploded and then mirror those symbols. not the best thing to have to do, but it would work.

Also, I don't remember for sure, but I thought there was a macro that would explode a linetype into single lines. If you could find this macro, you could explode your arc/circle and then mirror it.

I agree with the macro and sym mirror but I thought that it you drew an arc with 2-point, just as the arc is struck in the direction of the draw so would the arrow follow. Not the case. There just doesn't seem to be a way to draw an arc with the line type arrow going clockwise.

jlmcougar wrote:I agree with the macro and sym mirror but I thought that it you drew an arc with 2-point, just as the arc is struck in the direction of the draw so would the arrow follow. Not the case. There just doesn't seem to be a way to draw an arc with the line type arrow going clockwise.

Here is a .dlt file for an Arrow linetype in the opposite direction of the standard DataCAD Arrow linetype. The arrow will point in a clockwise direction no matter how your arc/circle is drawn. The default spacing is 1". Just copy and paste the text into Notepad then save as filename.dlt to the Support files/linetype folder. I use ArrowCw.dlt for Arrow Clockwise, that way it appears right under the standard Arrow linetype. I wouldn't change the name or the original Arrow linetype for the sake of any previous drawings that may use it.

[Line Definition]
Segments=11
EndCorrection=1
Factor=32
Seg1=100.5 -5.55111512312578E-17
Seg2=0 -0.05
Seg3=-0.35 4.16333634234434E-17
Seg4=-2.77555756156289E-17 -0.1
Seg5=-0.149998561493102 0.149998561493102
Seg6=0.149998561493102 0.149998561493102
Seg7=-2.77555756156289E-17 -0.1
Seg8=0.35 -8.32667268468867E-17
Seg9=0 -0.05
Seg10=99.5 2.87701379608762E-6
Seg11=101 0

HTH

I don' think there is a macro for exploding linetypes into individual lines. I've been wanting this. If you know of one, point me to it.

Thanks Daniel K I will try that and let you know the results.