I am having problem with drawing dotted lines. I know how to draw them but the spacing between them is way too wide.
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How do I get them to be more narrower? SOLA4012 Pluto205.dwg is my .DWG file.
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I am unsure if this is unit related. However, I have changed to "mm" setting. Yet, when drawing 1.000 unit of line it seems to be be 1 inch!?
When I join 2 lines that are dashed (or dotted, I don't know which is the correct name) there's no "corner". See picture below. In one of the corners the lines doesn't meet. In the other there's a "cut-out".
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This is the length of my white stitch
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I need to transform a lot of dashed (single) lines into separate lines... Who can tell me how to do this in a few clicks. I don't need an outline of the dashed line. So the black dashes I need, the white in between the dashes I want to loose.
See the example. I need the second lines.
I'm using a block with thick polylines. When i copy it to another drawing the thickness does'nt show anymore, only the contours drawn in thin lines.
How do I get my wide polylines to show correctly? Is there a setting I should know about?
I'm attaching an image of the block the way it should look, and one of how it looks when I paste it in drawning no 2.
We use a specific program for our line of work (KCL) in which the blocks of equipment we bring into autocad dashed lines only show up with an LTS scale of 10. By doing this I can never get our regular dashed or hidden lines to show up at that scale so I have to adjust the properties of each line to .025 or something like that for it to read. Is there something globally to change to make this work better?
Also, does PSLTSCALE have anything to do with it? What should this be set to?
Why I can't see my dashed lines in my layout tab? They are drawn in my model space, but just can't see them when i get ready to plot.
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I need to have hidden lines on a 3D object dashed. So basically I need all the lines but those lines that are at the back of a cube(wich are normaly hidden), they need to be dashed. See the attachment
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*EX-DASH,[G] Existing - - EX - - - - EX - - - - EX - -
A,.125,-.0625,0.127,-.254,["EX",STANDARD,S=.127,U=0,X=-.127,Y=-.0635],-.2,.125,-.0625,.125,-.0625
The result is similar to...
- - EX - - - - EX - - - - EX - - - - EX - - - - EX - - - - EX - -
Let's say that the pattern of the line ("- - EX - -", because that's the part that's being repeated) takes 50 units to display at a given scale. I draw a PLINE and one section of the line is like 75 units long. If the line I'm drawing can't contain the pattern of my custom line, it won't display correctly. Given these numbers, the pattern would only display right once (75 / 50 = 1.5).
I get that and it's ok. HOWEVER, one thing I don't get is why autocad displays the pattern once and then fill the rest with a continuous line. It's okay for all my continuous custom lines with text because it keeps the same base line and it feels transparent (and it's also the reason I never realized it was reacting this way until I started working with dashed lines).
Example: I want to display "- - EX - - - - EX - -" but would only have space for "- - EX - - - - E". Acad will display "- - EX - -" once + continuous line for the remaining space.
I know that if there's no space to fit a second "EX" it can't be displayed, and that's all right, but how come it doesn't fill the rest of my line with dashes instead of a continuous line? With PLINEs, every time I turn a corner, I get this continuous line segment on each corner before it starts displaying the dashes (because I can't always draw lines that fits perfectly the pattern).
How to force it to display dashes when there's not enough space to repeat the pattern one last time?
I have some text in vanilla Autocad 2014 that is showing up as dashed lines
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but it does not work. I set the ltscale as low as 0.01 but without result. I tried printing from "model" and "Layout" (everything is set at Wireframe and dashed occluded edges).
I have finished the drawings and documentation and this is holding me back from printing and sending what I have done.
Having problems with my 3d viewMy pc video card crashed yesterday and restored it as well but all of a sudden my 3d got screwed... zooming in and out makes all the lines dotted....
I already restarted my pc yet the problem still there, now i dont know if my cad is the problem or the pc, but i tried to render and its ok, only the views im having problems with.Another is when i edit block, zooming in and out... i see multiple lines... ?
I have just added all my attributes to the main template, but the default for the attributes is four dashed lines ----
so if the attribute has data it puts it in, but if it does not it just uses these dashed lines and I cannot seem to remove them. I don't want to make them invisible and don't particularly want to have to use code, but I have never come across this before .
I have attached a screenshot.
dashed lines are showing as continuous in both model and paperspace the property tab shows the linetype as by layer when i click on the line and under the layers proper manager the linetype for the layer says dashed
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3 layouts (scale 1:1 = 1)
+
1 layout where general map is shown (scale is 1:5 = 0.2)
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how can I show dashed line as continuous in single layout. Which settings for layout must be changed?
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I already tried MSLTSCALE = 1 in model space and PSLTSCALE = 1 and LTSCALE = 1 in paperspace.
it did not work.
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I saw some years ago a 3D drawing where hidden lines were dashed after hide command. I tried to find out, how it was made, but nothing. Today I need this solution, but I can't find information, how is it possible.
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I think i might have figured it out, when i set lts to 0.05 the show up fine in the layout area, but in the drawing are it looks like the line type scale is way too low. why the dashed lines don't show up the same in the drawing and layout areas?
A coworker is trying to publish a bunch of drawings to dwf and is having problems with the linetypes. Essentially, after publishing, the hidden lines are showing up dashed in some drawings and solid in others. We've tried setting the ltscale to 1 and the psltscale to 0. We are using AutoCAD 2007. Additionally, when we look at one tab in paperspace, the lines look correct, on another, the dashes look smaller. I'm at a loss as to what to do.
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I have drawn a site plan in model space at 1to1 scale. I try to draw hidden lines to show demolition. In paper space the scale is set to 1"=50" to fit on paper. But all the hidden lines plot solid. I had changed LTSCALE, PSLTSCALE, to 1. This problem keeps happening in most every thing I draw.
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