# Line edges, styles and weights

**URL:** <https://forums.sketchup.com/t/line-edges-styles-and-weights/27079>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [June 26, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/line-edges-styles-and-weights/27079 "2016-06-26T22:48:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![gadget2020](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/gadget2020/32/5495_2.png) [@gadget2020](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/gadget2020)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2016, 10:48pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/line-edges-styles-and-weights/27079/1 "2016-06-26T22:48:33Z")

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Nov 2014

> [@Controlling Lineweights with a new Outliner Tab in Layout](http://forums.sketchup.com/t/controlling-lineweights-with-a-new-outliner-tab-in-layout/3897):
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> Controlling line weights through Styles in SketchUP … then creating Stacked Scenes in SketchUP … then exporting those Scenes into Layout Viewports is a brilliant technique developed by Michael Brightman of Brightman Designs. This “Feature Request” would significantly reduce the number of stacked scenes that are currently required by this method and would make it more intuitive and simpler to control line weights within Layout on-the-fly. The key to this “Stacked Scene reduction” is to group …

Aug 2015

> [@Dashed dotted different weight lines](http://forums.sketchup.com/t/dashed-dotted-different-weight-lines/14041):
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> Hi just adding my two cents to the request for a similar gui in sketchup as already exist in layout. The ability to change line weights and line type would be incredibly useful to show assembly and design of details carlo

…and many more

I have always wondered why style builder didn’t have a “dotted” or “dashed” line (I presume it’s because a line style is a picture that gets stretched from point to point.)  
One of the feature requests I have had is that a style can be associated with a layer. Along with this it would be nice to:

- set the edge pen style _[pen texture, pen repeat distance, thickness, colour, extension, jitter,]_
- the cut-edge pen style _[same settings]_
- the cut-fill _[match face fill, default fill, specific fill]_.
- (New) set an edge bleed value _[this would blend from the surface fill on one side of the edge to the fill on the other - a ‘padding off-set border’ of X that would fade from 100% opaque to 100% transparent]_
- set the point style _[shape, size, colour]_
- set the ‘fog’ for edges _[as default tic, colour, fade from/to %]_ (independent from general ‘fog’)

The pen repeat distance is my solution to a dash/dot style - if the repeat distance is 0 then it stretches the pen texture along the length of the line (as it does just now). Otherwise it makes the pen texture X long and repeats it down the length of the line.