Sort out Dashed Lines on curves

[Kevin.Bell]

When you create a curve object or line and with line work set to dashed - Revit always restarts the dashes at the beginning and end of the line segments.

This means that if the curve is small or the dash is large curved objects won't display dashes as Revit can't fit the dashes in.

Revit should generate the dashes contiguously with any previous line segment so that any curve will appear dashed as the user would expect.

The image below shows a dashed shape - the curve bit at the top is dashed, but due to the size of the line segments Revit is not able to display them.

[Kimtaurus]

This isn't just a problem for curved lines, straight lines a have this as well. Revit restarts the pattern. At larger scales this is a real problem.

[Kevin.Bell]

Yes - very good point!

[MichaelWarwick7522]

In the old days, when we used to ride a horse to school and had to draw in AutoCAD, polylines let us control which lines were joined and determine if we wanted dashes to be continuous around a shape or start again at each intersection. We carefully constructed our electrical symbols so that when shown demolished they would be dashed, not solid as that would mean existing to be retained - a mistake we didn't want to happen.

Now cars can drive themselves and we have to raise as ideas the things we used to do. Anyway for this to work the autojoin of lines would need more control as per polylines. For example if you draw a square in Revit and then the two diagonals then tab over one line and see what path it selects often you get a triangle, not a square.