3d polylines

[MarkH]

Hi All

Can anyone give up any ideas on how to make 3d polylines show a line type other than solid/ continous. I am currently in a plan where I am required to have all lines such as bank and fence strung together which is not a problem, however the 3d polylines will only appear as solid in my plan. I cannot get dash lines or fence line type etc. I have tried a different line type scale without success.

Any ideas appreciated..

Cheers MarkH

[gregsmith]

Mark,

Survey figures (in 3D) will do that for you. You set up a style for each element using an appropriate linestyle. Then use the point coding to join your points.

The only issue I have survey figures is that you can't hatch inside them... even if they are setup to default the vertices to zero (which is optional).

Greg S

[andrewp]

Autocad does not disply linetypes for 3d polylines. 3d polylines appear as continuous, as you have found.

If you have civil 3d then gregs tip will work fine. Also feature lines work just as well as survey figures.

If you only have autocad, and you need to keep the 3d polylines, copy them to a new/seperate layer (try the "copytolayer" command) and explode then. If the linetype is attached to the 3dpolylines before you explode them, it should be the linetype of the resulting lines.

If you want to join the lines into 2d polylines, check out the "pedit" command.

If you do a search on the web, you will find there are lisp routines that will convert the 3d polylines to 2d polylines for you.

[MarkH]

cheers Andrew and Greg for input, should sort it out now, ta

MarkH