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if drawing unit is setted to meter, after lines being drawn, their linetypes are setted to 'ACAD_ISO02W100', but their effects are not.
Also, if i want to set the entity's linetype by code, not by property editor, how cand do?

liguosheng wrote:if drawing unit is setted to meter, after lines being drawn, their linetypes are setted to 'ACAD_ISO02W100'

Line type patterns are always in mm. If you need larger patterns, you can adjust the document wide linetype scale factor (RDocument::setLinetypeScale).

Also, if i want to set the entity's linetype by code, not by property editor, how cand do?

See:
REntity::setLinetypeId
RDocument::getLinetypeId

Thanks andrew.
If an entity's linetype isn't continuous, only based on screen-based mode, its' effect is visible. However, its' lineweight isn't visible. that is to say, the effect of linetype and lineweight cannot be existed at the same time. is this true?

Not sure what you mean. Please provide files, screenshots, etc. to better document what you are trying to achieve and what the problem is, thanks.

I want to draw a dashed line, it has line that is two units (that is to say 2 mm) and space whic is one unit (that is to say 1 mm), those length are real when they are printed. If the scale of drawing is 1/500, how can i set linescale?

The drawing scale does not affect the linetype patterns. I.e. a dashed line with dashes of 2mm and gaps of 1mm always prints with dashes of 2mm and gaps of 1mm, regardless of the scale it is printed in. You can observe this in the print preview of QCAD.

Thanks andrew.
In AutoCAD, the effect of dashed lines can be seen by linescale. In QCAD, how about linetypeScale? when is used it?

The global linetype scale is used for all lines.