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Lineweight Plot Style Toggle?

CovenStine
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Lineweight Plot Style Toggle?

CovenStine
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Hello,

I use primarily Civil3d, but I belive this is a Pure-CAD function, not modified by Civil 3d.

Is there any way to get "squared" dashes/edges in a line using a lineweight, instead of a Pline Global Width?

 

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.

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.

With pline width, that ends up looking like two squareish dashes and a tiny wide 'dot.'

 

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.

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.

 

Ideally we'd use a lineweight (and perhaps a modified linetype) and get a series of squared dashes: "short-long-long-short-long-long"

 

Is that possible? Is it a system variable I'm not familiar with?

Thanks for your help!

 

-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?

 

~C

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dmfrazier
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I think 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.  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 square.

 

As far as the Line End Style, if you're plotting with plot styles, you can specify square ends in the plot style table.

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dbroad
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To add to what @dmfrazier said, if you must have square dots in a linetype, then you need to:

  1. Add a linetype definition that uses very short dash strokes (0.02) instead of dots (0).  Make your "dots" as long as you want the lineweight to plot. The 0.02 length would work for a 0.5mm lineweight.
  2. Adjust your plot style to use square ends.

I think this was an oversight on the part of the AutoCAD developers but I don't expect any change from them.

 

Unfortunately, this makes your linetypes very specific as far as lineweights.  Use the MKLTYPE command to ease the work involved.

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