How to change line "caps" on rhino (round to butt)

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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I need to have crisp dotted lines on my Rhino drawing, but the default dotted line is rounded.
How does one change a ROUND line cap to a BUTT line cap?

I’m using the term “butt” from illustrator for a square end. Not trying to be comedic.

Thanks!
Michela

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I don’t think there’s a way to do that.
I remember way back in HPGL/2 driver days that was possible.
Maybe @stevebaer knows but I’m pretty sure you only get round line termination.

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You’re right JB, we currently only support rounded ends.

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Hi Steve,

Is there any talk at McNeel of adding this capability? It’s a small detail, but would be nice.

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Not in the near future. There are other issues that are taking precedence.

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Any news on this?

From WIP, I just exported a drawing to PDF, and I don’t like the line ends. I am looking for the opposite of @milosutter though: In my case the caps ends are square or butt, and I want them round.

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Bumping this up again. Small feature but would be great to control line cap and corner styles.

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Bump?

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Hi - We have this feature request on our list as items RH-28649 and RH-2285.
Both these items contain some user information and are therefore visible to developers only.

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I used to use Adobe PDF to print, because it was faster than Rhino PDF. Last few months it does not use the font I selected properly and replaces it with some default one. If I print from Rhino PDF fonts work fine and it is also much faster now, but I realised that corners are suddenly butt/square. I want them to be round, conected and clean like before.

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Please make sure to be on the latest Rhino 7 service release. I believe I fixed this recently.

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I am currently running R6. It is something which came up with a new release of R6.

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Any hope of fixing this for Rhino 8? Whether printing using Adobe or Rhino pdf I get rounded corners and ends.

Thanks!

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Hi Brian -

This has been implemented in Rhino 8. The cap and join styles are part of the linetype definition.
-wim

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Just downloaded and am checking it out. So happy this has been integrated! Thanks.