Hi, I don’t know if this is a bug on my machine, but when I use Displaymode “Technical” this is what I get in the layout. [grafik] Yet, when I print it, this is what I get. [grafik] What I want it to look like is this: [grafik] found here… neat dashed lines like in a technical drawing! http…

Hi Tobias - Sorry, I do not have any good news for the short term - the dashed line drawing is simply broken in V6 and V7, says the developer. The display modes that do not have Technical at their base do not have this hidden line capability at all, so I am afraid you are stuck. The best I can do fo…

Well, then I would be very happy if you’d make a bug report. How realistic is getting this working? I would not assume that it’s not very realistic because it seems to not be working in V6 as well, right?

Hi Tobias - correct, this has been broken, it seems since V6. -Pascal

@pascal I see. Strange why nobody else complained about that before. In my eyes this display mode is really, really (I cannot emphasize this enough) good and will mamke my life a lot easier. As the lines do not have to be dashed (at least right now), but I wanna see the hidden lines in terms to c…

Hi Tobias - no, I’m afraid that the settings you see for ‘Lines’ in technical based modes are ‘it’, there no more that I know of that would affect what you need. -Pascal

Okay. :frowning: If I may ask (hopefully) one last question. Is there any other way to make hidden lines visible in any way? This would be a tremendous help, because I do not want to switch to any other software for doing techincal drawings in the future. It does not even have to be like in a “s…

You would probably have to use the Make2D command, to create a flat, 2d version of your perspective view curves, and place the results off on the side of your Top viewport. Then in the layout detail, you could Zoom in on it. It would not be using the Technical working display mode at all.

@John_Brock , okay. I have to say though, that using the original and not the 2d-derivate has major advantages. For instance you would not be losing the information and could automate leaders that automatically get blocknames, etc… Sorry for the stupid question again: so that means there is no disp…

Correct. It is only a “working display mode”, and uses OpenGL display techniques to create the illusion of a Technical display with object and hidden lines.

@pascal @John_Brock May I ask if there’s anything happening on this one? It still would be a major improvement to me.

Display Mode Technical with lines dashed

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RH-11615 is fixed in the latest WIP

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Display Mode Technical with lines dashed

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