How to Draw Waterproofing Layer in AutoCAD

Blisterman

Hope my explanation's understandable..

There's a convention for drawing waterproofing layers as a kind of thick dashed line. But instead of a gap in the dashes, there are thin lines at either side.

Is there an easy way of doing this in AutoCAD?

Magown3

Blisterman wrote: »

Hope my explanation's understandable..

There's a convention for drawing waterproofing layers as a kind of thick dashed line. But instead of a gap in the dashes, there are thin lines at either side.

Is there an easy way of doing this in AutoCAD?

You can create custom linetypes

http://docs.autodesk.com/ACD/2010/ENU/AutoCAD%202010%20User%20Documentation/index.html?url=WS73099cc142f4875513fb5cd10c4aa30d6b-7e65.htm,topicNumber=d0e367610

Blisterman

Maybe I'm reading that wrong, or don't understand it, but that appears to only allow for one dimensional lines which are made up of combinations of dots and dashes.

De Bhál

http://www.upfrontezine.com/tailor/tailor20.htm

Try this, it's to draw parallel lines and you could amend it to suit.

Slig

I usually draw the waterproofing layer with a solid polyline and offset either side by e.g 2.5. then change the middle line from solid to dashed and in the properties change the global width to 5.

I tried to make up a line type for it years ago but I remember having problems with the solid hatch.

jozi

Same as Slig

3 parallel lines with the outer to a continuous linetype with a .05/.09 line weight and then a dashed poly line in the middle.