Dash hidden lines in 3D view (AC2008)

Discussion in 'AutoCAD' started by loquak, Dec 27, 2007.

  1. loquak

    loquak Guest

    I just can't find it in AC2008 - how do I make the lines hidden from the
    current perspective to appear dashed (or other color or whatever)?

    I tried tinkering with HLSETTINGS and OBSCUREDCOLOR but nothing happens
    in both 3D wireframe and 3D hidden modes.
     
    loquak, Dec 27, 2007
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  2. loquak

    strawberry Guest

    It's tricky. 2008 may have an improved interface for doing this, but
    I'm not aware of it. Traditionally, judicious use of the SOLVIEW and
    SOLDRAW commands can produce the desired result - but it can be
    extremely fiddly.

    I can't remember off the top of my head whether or not you can assign
    dashed linetypes to 3d objects. If you can, you might find it easier
    just to plot a paperspace view to pdf twice - once with HIDEPLOT set
    to ON, using a continuous linetype, and once with with HIDEPLOT set to
    OFF, using a dashed linetype. Once plotted, it would be fairly easy to
    combine the two views in your favorite graphics package. That's
    actually how I do it - but I don't use dashed lines. I just make the
    'hidden' lines fainter in photoshop by adjusting the transparency of
    that (photoshop) layer.

    Good luck.
     
    strawberry, Dec 27, 2007
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