topic Re: showing 3d cylindrical contour in 2d in AutoCAD Forum https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/showing-3d-cylindrical-contour-in-2d/m-p/10210948#M80764 <P>Hi,</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><FONT color="#333399"><EM>&gt;&gt; My cylinder does not show the dashed line like the red stroke</EM></FONT></P> <P><FONT color="#333399"><EM>&gt;&gt; in the example image, how can I get it to show?</EM></FONT></P> <P>No, AutoCAD does not show lines like yours between two projected circles representing a hidden cylinder (in modelspace and visual styles like "Hidden").</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>What you can use to get these lines plotted is to use the function <STRONG><FONT color="#333399">_VIEWBASE</FONT> </STRONG>(and further objects based on this like details and sections to get e.g. this:</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="20210404_171957_0001.png" style="width: 352px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/902088i228205C829FF0C4D/image-dimensions/352x252?v=v2" width="352" height="252" role="button" title="20210404_171957_0001.png" alt="20210404_171957_0001.png" /></span></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>More details to these functions: <A href="https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2022/ENU/?guid=GUID-E0F79E2F-8838-4470-B8D0-8626343A22D2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&gt;&gt;&gt;click&lt;&lt;&lt;</A></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>- alfred -</P> Sun, 04 Apr 2021 15:23:08 GMT Alfred.NESWADBA 2021-04-04T15:23:08Z showing 3d cylindrical contour in 2d https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/showing-3d-cylindrical-contour-in-2d/m-p/10210915#M80763 <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Screenshot 2021-04-04 174535 - Copy.png" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/902086i2C33B93AEB95A4E7/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="Screenshot 2021-04-04 174535 - Copy.png" alt="Screenshot 2021-04-04 174535 - Copy.png" /></span><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Screenshot 2021-04-04 174535.png" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/902087iDC45AA27BFA5FA3F/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="Screenshot 2021-04-04 174535.png" alt="Screenshot 2021-04-04 174535.png" /></span><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="Screenshot 2021-04-04 174734.png" style="width: 999px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/902085iD7A598FF0531DA4C/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="Screenshot 2021-04-04 174734.png" alt="Screenshot 2021-04-04 174734.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P><SPAN>My cylinder does not show the dashed line like the red stroke in the example image, how can I get it to show? Thank you very much. Sorry for my bad English.</SPAN></P> Sun, 04 Apr 2021 14:52:17 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/showing-3d-cylindrical-contour-in-2d/m-p/10210915#M80763 Anonymous 2021-04-04T14:52:17Z Re: showing 3d cylindrical contour in 2d https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/showing-3d-cylindrical-contour-in-2d/m-p/10210948#M80764 <P>Hi,</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><FONT color="#333399"><EM>&gt;&gt; My cylinder does not show the dashed line like the red stroke</EM></FONT></P> <P><FONT color="#333399"><EM>&gt;&gt; in the example image, how can I get it to show?</EM></FONT></P> <P>No, AutoCAD does not show lines like yours between two projected circles representing a hidden cylinder (in modelspace and visual styles like "Hidden").</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>What you can use to get these lines plotted is to use the function <STRONG><FONT color="#333399">_VIEWBASE</FONT> </STRONG>(and further objects based on this like details and sections to get e.g. this:</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="20210404_171957_0001.png" style="width: 352px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/902088i228205C829FF0C4D/image-dimensions/352x252?v=v2" width="352" height="252" role="button" title="20210404_171957_0001.png" alt="20210404_171957_0001.png" /></span></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>More details to these functions: <A href="https://help.autodesk.com/view/ACD/2022/ENU/?guid=GUID-E0F79E2F-8838-4470-B8D0-8626343A22D2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&gt;&gt;&gt;click&lt;&lt;&lt;</A></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>- alfred -</P> Sun, 04 Apr 2021 15:23:08 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/showing-3d-cylindrical-contour-in-2d/m-p/10210948#M80764 Alfred.NESWADBA 2021-04-04T15:23:08Z