topic Re: Making Doors as Dashed Lines in Libraries & objects

Making Doors as Dashed Lines

Anonymous — Fri, 26 May 2023 09:18:27 GMT

Hi all,

Im doing a ceiling plan and we're meant to have the doors as dashed lines (school project), I cant see an option for the line type of the doors, any ideas?

Thanks,
Lachlan

Re: Making Doors as Dashed Lines

David Maudlin — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:57:08 GMT

Lachlan:

In the Door's Settings > Floor Plan & Section > Symbol & Outline > uncheck Enable Object's Linetypes, then change the Symbol Line to a dashed linetype. But there is no way to automate this change, so it will have to be done manually as you change between Ceiling Plan and Architectural Plan.

David

Re: Making Doors as Dashed Lines

Anonymous — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:06:42 GMT

Great, thanks for your help David.

Re: Making Doors as Dashed Lines

Richard Morrison — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:19:33 GMT

David wrote:
But there is no way to automate this change, so it will have to be done manually as you change between Ceiling Plan and Architectural Plan.

David, providing that you don't need to combine a demo plan with the existing/new, I'll bet it could be done "automatically" with renovation filters.

Re: Making Doors as Dashed Lines

David Maudlin — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:51:35 GMT

Richard wrote:
providing that you don't need to combine a demo plan with the existing/new, I'll bet it could be done "automatically" with renovation filters.

Yes, if the Renovation Filters are not being used, this could be a solution.

David

Re: Making Doors as Dashed Lines

Richard Morrison — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:55:11 GMT

And another idea:

Select walls and doors in plan view and convert to 2D linework and change everything to a single layer with dashed linetype. Then you could place it "behind" everything else using display order.

Or: Create a .MOD file, and change everything to dashed, then put behind in the plan, or behind as a view in the layout. (You can "stack" views here.)

Or: See if your instructor will accept a light grey version rather than dashed. Then you could use a dedicated penset.

Probably another couple of ways if I think about it.