Creating custome line symbology

[IainStuart]

In the 19th C the Lands Department in New South Wales had a set of specific line styles that they used to symbolise polygons relating to different land characteristics (ie County Boundary, Parish Boundary, Town Boundary...etc) on their reference maps. I am interested in trying to reproduce this symbology and have tried editing styles but with limited success. is there more than one way to do this in ArcGIS? Can line symbols be created in another program - such as Coral Draw and imported into ArcGIS.

Cheers

Iain

[XanderBakker]

Do you have an example of the line symbology that you are trying to create?

Have you tried representations?

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[IainStuart]

[XanderBakker]

I think many of these line symbol are already present or can be recreated based on an existing line symbol (just switch on the other Style references that are normally switched off). You can tailor them more precise using representations.

Is there a specific line symbol that you have problems with?