What is the current guidance on the line styles associated with the Pavement Marking Feature Definitions? For instance, drawing a line with the Feature Definition PM_P_Center Line Double Solid, 6" places a line with a line style of Center Line Double Solid. This line style is a double line with essentially no thickness to either line. Is this the correct line style for plan production? There is also a line style Center Line Double Solid, 6". This also displays the double line; however, both lines appear to be a filled shape 6” thick. Is this only intended for exhibits, or should we be overriding the line style for plan production?
ODOT - General OpenRoads - Pavement Marking Line Styles
So in SS4 a couple years ago we introduced the custom linestyles that show the actual physical width. the main reason we did this was for LumenRT. When you create a 3D model and export it to LumenRT linestyles that don't have a width will not show up. So we added these custom line styles.
We left the old ones (non width ones) for plan production as many uses do not like the way the new width ones look on a plan sheet especially at larger scales.
the feature definitions are set up to show the non width linestyles for the plan view and the width ones for the 3d view.
the issue Brian is talking about is we had some linestyles get messed up in our cadd standards. in CONNECT we changed the way we use custom linestyles. In SS4 the custom linestyles were read directly from a rsc file. whn tis I done the linestyles are not copied into the file so if you open that file without the cadd standards then it wont show the custom linestyles. So in CONNECT we changed to importing the custom line styles into a dgnlib.Now as the custom linestyles are used they are copied into the file so now the dgn can be opened without the cadd standards and the linestyles will still display.
but this change does come at a cost. Since the linestyle is copied into the file when you use it. If we (OHDOT) change/fix a linestyle that a file already used then that file will not see the update. Which is the problem Brian is talking about. The lnestyles that we had a problem with were with the pavement markings. So I put a button in the ribbon called fix OHDOT linestyles (its the far right button). Open the problem file and hit that button and it will fix up the bad linestyles for you. but again that's only if you used a bad pavement marking linestyle in that file before we pushed the fixed it the last fix we pushed out for custom linestyles was on February 7th 2020. As always you can see or revision doc here, ftp://ftp.dot.state.oh.us/pub/CADD/CADDSync/OHDOT/Standards/OHDOT_RunningUpdates.pdf
hopefully that clarifies everything if not let me know.