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    <title>tema Re: Lineweight Plot Style Toggle? en AutoCAD Forum</title>
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    <description>&lt;P&gt;I&amp;nbsp;think&amp;nbsp;the dot in the line will always appear rounded, regardless of the method used to display or plot line thickness/weight/width, because it is a dot.&amp;nbsp; There may be a way (as you suggest) to define a linetype with a very short "dash" that can be made to display and/or plot&amp;nbsp;square.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;As far as the Line End Style, if you're plotting with plot styles, you can specify square ends in the plot style table.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2015 13:59:24 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>dmfrazier</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2015-12-22T13:59:24Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Lineweight Plot Style Toggle?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/lineweight-plot-style-toggle/m-p/5961394#M107289</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hello,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I use primarily Civil3d, but I belive this is a Pure-CAD function, not modified by Civil 3d.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Is there any way to get "squared" dashes/edges in a line using a lineweight, instead of a Pline Global Width?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The company I work for often uses a workflow of one layout per drawing, which has its disadvantages and its advantanges- depending on your point of view.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;One of the things they use is PolyLine width on many of their boundary lines which yeilds a thick line for exacple in a "dot-dash-dash" linetype.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;With pline width, that ends up looking like two squareish dashes and a tiny wide 'dot.'&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Now, I prefer to build a number of sheets in one drawing so I don't have to spend time changing the same thing four times, but if I use a PLine width and different scales on different sheets, the linewidths are obviously out of scale on one or the other sheet.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;If I use a 0 pline width, and instead use a lineweight that yeilds a similar thickness, the "dot-dash-dash" becomes a circle that is the diameter of the lineweight and two rounded dashes.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Ideally we'd use a lineweight (and perhaps a modified linetype) and get a series of squared dashes: "short-long-long-short-long-long"&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Is that possible? Is it a system variable I'm not familiar with?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thanks for your help!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;-ps, I searched for an answer, and found nothing, so I apologize if I didn't dig deep enough; could you post a link if this has already been answered?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;~C&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2015 00:28:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>CovenStine</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-12-22T00:28:06Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Lineweight Plot Style Toggle?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/lineweight-plot-style-toggle/m-p/5961902#M107322</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I&amp;nbsp;think&amp;nbsp;the dot in the line will always appear rounded, regardless of the method used to display or plot line thickness/weight/width, because it is a dot.&amp;nbsp; There may be a way (as you suggest) to define a linetype with a very short "dash" that can be made to display and/or plot&amp;nbsp;square.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;As far as the Line End Style, if you're plotting with plot styles, you can specify square ends in the plot style table.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2015 13:59:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>dmfrazier</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-12-22T13:59:24Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Lineweight Plot Style Toggle?</title>
      <link>https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/lineweight-plot-style-toggle/m-p/5962075#M107342</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;To add to what&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/13156"&gt;@dmfrazier﻿&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;said, if you must have square dots in a linetype, then you need to:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;OL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Add a linetype definition that uses very short dash strokes (0.02) instead of dots (0). &amp;nbsp;Make your "dots" as long as you want the lineweight to plot. The 0.02 length would work for a 0.5mm lineweight.&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Adjust your plot style to use square ends.&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;/OL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I think this was an oversight on the part of the AutoCAD developers but I don't expect any change from them.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Unfortunately, this makes your linetypes very specific as far as lineweights. &amp;nbsp;Use the MKLTYPE command to ease the work involved.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2015 15:29:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>dbroad</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2015-12-22T15:29:56Z</dc:date>
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