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Grid Lines (structural)

Grid Lines (structural)

Grid Lines (structural)

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The architect I am working with belives that hand drawings are the best drawings that their are, but I use AutoCAD.  The biggest complaint He gives is about the structural grid lines, and the breaks not lining up if they are of different lenghts, and them not intersecting when they cross.  Is their anyway to have a line, long segment, space point space point space, where the long segment is adjustable and the point space point remains the same dims always.  Or if that is not possible can you redefine the point where the breaks originate from?

RE: Grid Lines (structural)

Typical Architect
I assume you are using a linetype such as center or phantom or whatever.
If so, here's one way you can acheive your goal, although it's a bit of a pain.
First off, if the lines all start and end at the same place, the spaces and segments should all line up.
Now for the "lines not crossing" issue.
One way to deal with it is use polylines drawn in segments.
For example, you have bays that are 25' in each direction.
Draw a pline 25', then another one, then another, etc. for each direction.  Then join all these pline's together to create one pline that has segments in it.
Now use pedit and select the pline, type L for "Ltype gen" and turn the option off.  What this does is treat the pline as a single line (on) or multiple lines (off)
The reason for doing this is that linetypes will always start and end with a segment of line, so by creating pline segments, the LT will always be solid at the intersections.

This may result in some odd looking lines so you will have to determine if it looks right or not for you.  Also, if the segment get too short, it may just draw a solid line.

Just experiment with it and it may work OK for you.  Granted, it is a huge pain to have to do it this way, but if that is what he wants from you, he'll just have deal with paying for your time to do it

Hope this helps

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