# Dotted or dashed lines?

**URL:** <https://forums.sketchup.com/t/dotted-or-dashed-lines/3971>\
**Category:** SketchUp\
**Created:** [November 15, 2014, 7:41pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/dotted-or-dashed-lines/3971 "2014-11-15T19:41:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jayf3641](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e57/32.png) [@jayf3641](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/jayf3641)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 7:41pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/dotted-or-dashed-lines/3971/1 "2014-11-15T19:41:13Z")

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Is there any way to draw dotted or dashed lines in SketchUp ?

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**Author:** ![TIG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/tig/32/198_2.png) [@TIG](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/TIG)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2014, 9:32pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/dotted-or-dashed-lines/3971/2 "2014-11-15T21:32:38Z")

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Try my 2dLineStyle [SketchUp Plugins | PluginStore | SketchUcation](http://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=2Dtools)

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**Author:** ![paulr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@paulr](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/paulr)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 2018, 8:28pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/dotted-or-dashed-lines/3971/3 "2018-12-14T20:28:58Z")

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draw a line (or an arc).  
right click on it.  
choose ‘divide’  
type in an odd number, eg 5  
your line is now split into 5 segments  
erase the 2nd and 4th segment of the line.

Hurrah