How to create a Custom LineStyle to react the same way AutoCad displays its lines with Line Segments & Dashes. By setting up this custom linestyle the line segment will always start with a line & end with a line. The second technique stretches / shrinks the gaps slightly to make things fit. The first technique just expands / contracts the end segments but does not look as nice as the first option.Product: MicroStation V8 2004 EditionVersion: 08.05.01.25Area: Custom Linestyles
1. To make a line style display in the way that AutoCad controls them:Element>Line Style>EditFile> Open select the line style resource they wantSelect the stroke style that they are interested inIn the Stroke Pattern Attributes section, Toggle "Single segment" & Select "Shift: center"2. This method will give you a better line style, but not exactly whatAutoCAD uses:Element>Line Style>EditFile> open select the line style resource they wantSelect the stroke style that t hey are interested inIn the Stroke Pattern Attributes section, Toggle "Single segment" & Select "Shift: Fraction" & setting the fraction to 0.5Then allow one or preferably all of the gaps to be variable: Click on one of the gaps in Stroke Pattern Set "Length> Variable" Click on next gap Set "Length> Variable"