Making Doors as Dashed Lines

[Anonymous]

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

[David Maudlin]

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

[Anonymous]

Great, thanks for your help David.

[Richard Morrison]

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.

[David Maudlin]

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

[Richard Morrison]

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.