I've been using CAD for survey drafting since 1990. I mostly stick with a few standard linetypes, among which are dashed, dashed2, and dashedx2, the latter two just scaled variants of dashed. But here's the thing: 25 years on, I *still* can't remember if the one with more closely-spaced dashes is dashed2 or dashedx2. I *always* have to try one to see, and I *always* get it wrong.
Sheesh.
What was that?
There are 3 ways to tell if you are getting old... 1st your memory goes.
I don't remember the others!
My problem is my memory kicks in when I'm about 2 hours from home. That's when my mind reminds me of some item I was supposed to bring. Last time it was my belt. At least I didn't forget my boots. Now I keep an older pair of boots in the truck just in case.
Dave, you probably just have some kryptonite stashed in your house. Throw it away and your memory should work well at your home![emoji2]
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I can't recall how many times this has happened to me too, Jim. Another one for me is annotating building offsets with leaders correctly. I just say screw it...label and explode. Living in CAD sin.
I find myself processing something that was started a few days ago and things get fuzzy until that has been solved and then I can get to the next phase of recovery.
OMG, I may be going digital from spending 5hrs on the phone with robots getting thru the government portal and connecting third party with the BCBS service center and then 2hr on the phone with a couple of lawyers that insist writing new descriptions from a 24yr old drawing is all that their clients want me to do.
May need to spike my coffee this morning...:coffee: + :drink: = :rain:
dashed2 is the equivalent of dashed/2, remember that certain ascii characters are not acceptable in file names
dashedx2 is the equivalent of dashed*2, another character that cannot be used in a filename
personally I use all 3 versions of hidden much more often than all 3 versions of dashed
Paul in PA
You could rename those line types to something else, that you'd probably remember! :-S
Nate The Surveyor, post: 322359, member: 291 wrote: What was that?
There are 3 ways to tell if you are getting old... 1st your memory goes.
I don't remember the others!
Aloha, Nate: Good one! I am going to use this!!!