Hello,

I am attaching a drawing to better illustrate what I am talking about.

I a having a few issues with making shop drawings in IronCad.

1. is it possible to make the sizes of dashes change with the scale of the drawing? If I make a part that is to big to fit on a typical sheet of paper, i need to scale it. but when I use hidden lines the dashes are so big they appear solid and confuse the meaning of the drawing.

2. If I have a cylinder with a chamfer on it, IronCad will draw two lines for the max diameter making an ugly drawing. This is clearer in the detail view A. Is there a way to stop this?

3. This is not in the drawing, but If i am making a drawing package for an assembly and I need to detail a part of the assembly with hidden lines Ironcad will show a bunch of hidden lines that have nothing to do with the part I am working on? Ideas? I fear my former drafting prof would fly here and murder me if I make a drawing not to standard so not using hidden lines is out

Thanks
Brent

1. No, you'll have to set different linetypes for different line scales.

2. Right-click the Detail View, go to Properties and set the View to Precise mode.

3. We don't have the ability to set hidden lines for specific parts, it's either the whole view of none at all.

It's possible to show hidden lines on just one part in a view using Edit View Curves. (The view must be in precise mode.)
1) Show hidden edges in the view.
2) Edit view curves.
3) Set Filter Edge Visibility to "Hidden Only", Select Edges to "Parts" & Layer to "HiddenAnnotations"
4) Select the parts where you want to hide the hidden edges.

Thank Mike, I forgot about that method.

3.
You should be able to use dashed lines on partlevel:
-Precice drawning mode (ICD)
-Have or create a layer called Dashed and set linetype to...Dashed on that layer, in the layer creation dialog.
-RMB the drawing view, Edit View curves.
-Filter on PARTS on left pane.
-Select the parts of choise and move them to the layer with dashed lines.
Now some parts are dashed.
Can be used for color also.

Thanks for the replies, as usual all very helpful. To clarify what I was talking about on point 3, I attached a drawing.

Please send those ICD and ICS files to support@ironcad.com and I'll investigate this further but you might be able to delete those extra lines or right-click them and select Hide.

I am sending the files, I can delete the lines and I do on my drawings. The problem is on a complex assembly there are so many that it often takes a hour to do.

Bug report filed, incident # 100866