Scenario: You want a new wire type and you want it to have a dashed line.
Creating the new wire type is the easy part...
- Start the wire command
- In the properties palette, Edit Type
- In the type properties select Duplicate
- Name your new wire type
- Modify parameters as needed
- OK
Great, I have a new wire type...but how do I change the line style associated to this wire?
That's where filters come in. Since we can't tie a specific line type to the wire either through object styles or visibility graphics overrides, we have to accomplish this with filters.
To create the filter:
- Go to the View Tab
- On the Graphics panel, select Filters
- Select New (the paper with an * on it)
- Name your filter (i.e. Wire THWN Dashed)
- Set the Filter Rules as shown below
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- OK to close the filter dialog box
To apply the filter to a view:
- Open the view you want to apply the filter to
- Type VG on your keyboard to open the Visibility Graphics dialog box
- Select the Filters tab
- Add
- Select the filter you created for the dashed wire
- Set your overrides (see example below)
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- OK out of the override dialog
- OK out of Visibility Graphics
If you want to create a line pattern specifically for the dashed wire type you can do that from the Manage Tab, Additional Settings, Line Pattern
- New
- Name the new line style
- Set the Dash and Space similar to how it is shown below
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If you need to change the wire line pattern for multiple plans create a view filter for that and then apply the view filter to the other views.
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