topic Re: Dashed Line appearing rounded, not square in AutoCAD Forum

Dashed Line appearing rounded, not square

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 16:29:36 GMT

Hi,

I'm recreating elements of a drawing, one of which is a drainage run, the original drawing uses a line type that is a dashed line that appears thick & is square at the ends. I assumed that was done by using line weight, however at the end of each dash the end appears round not square, I've attached a picture of them both for you to see (attached).

Re: Dashed Line appearing rounded, not square

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 16:38:24 GMT

the problem could be in your ctb file, adjust the line end style under the properties section.

Re: Dashed Line appearing rounded, not square

imadHabash — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 16:42:48 GMT

can you attache a CAD dwg file for the lines appears round not square ?

Re: Dashed Line appearing rounded, not square

vinodkl — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 16:57:38 GMT

Hi,

The dashed line is assigned a global width and not line weight. Line's with line weight will have a rounded edge🙂. I hope this clarifies your doubt.

Re: Dashed Line appearing rounded, not square

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 17:49:37 GMT

Can anyone please let me know if you are able to adjust the "global width" in CAD lite? If so, where/how? Thank you!

Re: Dashed Line appearing rounded, not square

Kent1Cooper — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:07:34 GMT

That is a characteristic of Polylines only [see the Properties palette], so anything you want to have that would need to be one or be converted into one.

Re: Dashed Line appearing rounded, not square

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:15:17 GMT

The lines I'm referencing are Polylines, they are dashed like the other posters example, but like theirs the ends of each of the dashes are rounded. I'm trying to figure out how to stop them from being rounded.

Re: Dashed Line appearing rounded, not square

Kent1Cooper — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:20:49 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

The lines I'm referencing are Polylines, they are dashed like the other posters example, but like theirs the ends of each of the dashes are rounded. I'm trying to figure out how to stop them from being rounded.

What global width do they have [pick one and look at its Properties]? If it's zero, that is probably the cause -- change it to a non-zero value and don't use lineweight.

Re: Dashed Line appearing rounded, not square

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:29:59 GMT

Thank you! For some reason ONE line that I had selected wasn't a polyline so I wasn't seeing where to change the global width but now that I've corrected that I've gotten it updated and that works perfect. Thank you for explaining!

Re: Dashed Line appearing rounded, not square

peterl39TFV — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 19:35:00 GMT

YES. Specifically:

Plot dialog window -> ctb properties popup -> table view -> set the first color to “Butt”, right-click ‘line end style’ -> apply to all styles