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200 | Chapter 14 Control the Properties of Objects
Display Linetypes on Short Segments and
Polylines
If a line is too short to hold even one dash sequence, AutoCAD draws a
continuous line between the endpoints, as shown below.
You can accommodate short segments by using a smaller value for their indi-
vidual linetype scales. For more information, see “Control Linetype Scale” on
page 198.
For polylines, you can specify whether a linetype pattern is centered on each
segment or is continuous across vertices throughout the entire length of the
polyline. You do this by setting the
PLINEGEN system variable.
To set the linetype display for all new polylines
1 At the Command prompt, enter plinegen.
2 Enter 1 to make the linetype pattern continue throughout the entire
length of two-dimensional polylines, or enter 0 to center the linetype
pattern on each segment.
Command line
PLINEGEN
linetype centered on each 2D
polyline segment
linetype continuous throughout the
2D polyline
PLINEGEN = 0 PLINEGEN = 1