wyldscape Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I keep selecting the line to be dashed but it stays continuous. very frustrating. Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted January 31, 2014 Share Posted January 31, 2014 Helps a lot to know what version of VW you are using. It could be a scale thing. If you are at a 1:1 scale and zoomed out looking at an entire site then dashed lines will appear solid. Look at it in a scale close to what you want to print at to check. OR If you have a custom dash style or even a some stock dash styles and you are drawing something that is too small for the dash to break it will also appear to be solid. Or are you saying that you select a dashed style and it unselects that style and goes back to solid? hth mk Quote Link to comment
wyldscape Posted February 4, 2014 Author Share Posted February 4, 2014 the last one exactly.. I select dashed and it reverts back to solid. I'm using VW 2011 Landmark and have imported a dwg file with the floor line I want dashed. Any clues on what's happening? Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 I don't think I've ever seen this before. Can you copy and past the line into a blank document and post it? MK Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Easiest fix may be to recreate the object with native Vectorworks tools, maybe by tracing with the polyline. Then apply a native Vectorworks line style for the dash Long ago I imported some dwg site contours into Vectorworks ( maybe v2009?). They all displayed OK, but ome of them could not be selected by the selection tool. Some of these I could split, and one half would select, but the other half would not. It turned out these were made with some special kind of Autodesk tool or attribute the surveyors were using, but apparently not applying to all of them. Or the Surveyor used one product and the civil design firm imported those and exported them differently to me. Anyway, the only solution was for me to trace them in Vectorworks with the polyline tool. -B Quote Link to comment
wyldscape Posted February 5, 2014 Author Share Posted February 5, 2014 I ended up tracing it, I just assumed it was something to do with the import of a foreign file (dwg). I'm not to sure how to post files? Thanks for the help. Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 To post a file: Click on the "Switch to Full Reply Screen" at the bottom of the page. Then click on the File Manager link. mk Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 (edited) To add a file to your post, click the File Manager link. Click "Choose File" Browse to the file you want to add. Click Add File. Repeat for each file (5 max). Click done adding files. Click Submit. -B Edited February 5, 2014 by Benson Shaw Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 (edited) If you want to display this image: The file you added will show in your post as a link (blue text). If the file is an image and you want it to show as an image in the post, you need to do 2 more things. 1. Get the URL address of the link in your post: In your post, Right click the link and in the flyout menu choose Copy Address. This puts the URL of the file on your clipboard. 2. Display the image in your post: View your post and click the Edit button. In the Edit window click the Enter an Image button - It's one of those icons right above the text of the post, 4th button from the left. In the flyout menu choose any option (eg Insert a Non-floating Image). In the dialog, paste your URL from your clipboard. Delete or just paste over the highlighted http:// because your URL comes with that. Click Change Post. OK. Good luck. -B Edited February 5, 2014 by Benson Shaw Quote Link to comment
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.