Printing of dotted/dashed lines

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Printing of dotted/dashed lines

Post by dfriasb » Mon Jun 06, 2016 1:00 pm

Hello all,

I'm trying to print properly dotted lines but for me it's impossible with lower printing scales. From 1/100 and over it is good, because dots look almost round, but in lower scales like 1/10 dots are not round anymore, they're small lines that overlap one over each other. Also, in polylines, this "small lines" are always in the same direction, so the thickness of the polyline changes depending of the direction of the segment.

Here you can see a test I did. I draw a polyline and scaled it for three different printing scales, so that the final size in the paper of the polyline is the same for all the scales. This is how I see the polyline at 1/1000:

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Here it is at 1/100. It starts to be not good:

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And this is the same at 1/10 scale:

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My question is: is it possible to diminish this length of the "dot"? Maybe there is some other solution...

I'm working with metric system, meters for model space and millimeters for paper space. I have "Scale linetype patterns by line weight" option enabled.
I'm using QCAD Professional 3.15.2.0 in Mac OS X.

Thanks!
Last edited by dfriasb on Mon Jun 06, 2016 9:58 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: Printing of dotted/dashed lines

Post by andrew » Mon Jun 06, 2016 1:06 pm

dfriasb, thanks for your report.

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Re: Printing of dotted/dashed lines

Post by dfriasb » Mon Jun 06, 2016 3:03 pm

Thank you Andrew, I just edited my message with this new data.
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Re: Printing of dotted/dashed lines

Post by andrew » Tue Jun 07, 2016 8:15 am

Thanks. I couldn't reproduce there here so far. Can you please attach your DXF file, thanks.

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Re: Printing of dotted/dashed lines

Post by dfriasb » Tue Jun 07, 2016 8:58 am

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Re: Printing of dotted/dashed lines

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Re: Printing of dotted/dashed lines

Post by dfriasb » Sun Jun 19, 2016 3:02 pm

Thanks! Now it's working perfectly!
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