Is there anyone who has a solution to "Run through corners" ?

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Hi, 
 I work a lot with mapping to authorities, and they have many requirements regarding line styles. 
 One requirement is to have line styles that are not "broken" at breakpoints, you want the line style complete throughout the mapped line. 
 When using "Run through corners" in MS (v8i and CONNECT) the setting is not retained when exporting to dwg, how come? Does anyone know any solution to this? How can I get the line style to maintain "run through corners" in to my exported file. Kind Regards, Elin

Mark Shamoun · Answer

Hi Elin, 
 
 I was having a similar issue ( [CE U13] DWG Linestyle Corner Mode resets on Save? - MicroStation Forum - MicroStation - Bentley Communities ) and this resulted in Defect 1078754. I don't believe it has been fixed yet. 
 
 My solution in the meantime was to make sure that my Linestyle was in a rsc file (imported into Microstation and then Saved) and had the Linestyle Stroke Corners setting set to "Break" and Single Segment turned OFF in the Linestyle Editor as below.

MaryB · Answer

OK, let me get this straight. 
 
 You create a 3D DGN file. All looks correct. 
 You create a 2D DGN file. Do things look correct at this point? 
 You create a 3D DWG from your 3D DGN. Linestyles do not display correctly at all. 
 You create a "2D" DWG from your 2D DGN. Linestyles look correct, except that they break at the corners. 
 
 I'll start with 4 first. DWG linestyles do not have the same capability as DGN linestyles. They are not written into nor used by the program in the same way. AutoCAD linestyles will always break at the corners because that's how AutoCAD defines the linestyles. This will happen regardless of using MicroStation or AutoCAD - it is part of the DWG drawing format. There is nothing to be done. 
 With 3, DWG 3D polylines do not display with a linestyle. See https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-map-3d-forum/imported-3d-polylines-will-not-change-to-layer-style-line-types/td-p/3456870 However, depending on the version of AutoCAD you have, you may be able to change a setting to make things look better. See https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/civil-3d-forum/3dpoly-line-display/td-p/7850642 I f you do not have AutoCAD, you may be out of luck, but you could certainly pass that information on to your client. 
 For 2, you could just be seeing the difference between the 3D representation of an element and the 2D version. Again, elevation differences can change the way linestyles appear because a 3D line is longer than the 2D representation of it. 
 I think the biggest problem you have is that you are creating 3D polylines (which will not display with a linestyle at all), and you want DWG files to do something that DWG format simply cannot do. Microstation has no control over what is or isn't possible in DWG format, because Bentley didn't develop the DWG format. It may be helpful to ask about your DWG files over on the AutoDesk website

Is there anyone who has a solution to "Run through corners" ?

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