Re: Linestrings Plotting - Dashed looking like solid lines

Mike Francisco — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:45:25 GMT

Dan,

We still have not gotten a response from Bentley and I think I know why. I looked back into the old NewGroup files and found this problem reported back as far as I could go. They offered no plotting solution, on th use the "Rebuild Curve" command to thin the vertices in the linestring. They say that V8i solves the problem, however I happen to know that Colorado Department of Transprotation is getting ready to switch to XM so that will make another group of angry people who can't print contours.

Mike

Re: Linestrings Plotting - Dashed looking like solid lines

Mike Francisco — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:11:27 GMT

Dan Ficker:

In XM -- Geopak places contours by line strings. Trouble is, the generated contour linestrings are lots of little line string segments, large portions of the contours look solid b/c the dash is computed using the little segemnts of linestring, and not for the linestring as a whole. I don't think I can get anything else beside linestrings for the contours

(I'd swear this was different in Ustn V8 and the plotted line string dashes would look ok)

I am using lc=3 so its not a custom LS issue. Is there now a setting that affects how the dashes are plotted in a linestring?

See attached PDF....Any advice?

I'm having the same problems - any ideas out there !