Making construction details

Load this … then zoom in on Los Angeles

We should note that the Northridge earthquake (of 1994) occurred on a previously unknown thrust fault. (With 57 deaths, 8,700 injured, $22–85 billion damage in today’s dollars to property and infrastructure.)

Perhaps a few simple SU rules would help you?

Rules 1, 2, and 3 - all the same: all raw geometry on Layer 0*
Rule 4 - All raw geometry contained in a group or component and placed on a dedicated layer (NOT Layer 0). No “loose” raw geometry.
Rule 5 - Make use of Outliner to see hierarchies of nested groups and components
Rule 6 - Use Groups for one off assemblies and Components for repeated identical assemblies
Rule 7 - Use scenes to focus on parts of your drawing, either for editing purposes or for export to LO (or both). Make sure camera is set to Parallel for 2D representations and 3D for perspectives.
Rule 8 - Don’t forget Rules 1, 2, and 3.

  • There is one exception I can think of to these fundamental rules. It is now possible to have dotted and broken line styles in SU but they are layer based. That means raw geometry of such lines has to be on a layer that has the required style set for it. As you are on SU 2018, I don’t think this will affect you but it would if and when you upgraded.
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Not necessarily, if the edges are grouped or made into a component, then simply assign the group/component to the layer with dashed lines style. That way geometry on layer 0 rules can still apply.

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I thought that didn’t work but I’ve just tried it and it does. Thank you. In that case, I withdraw my exception.

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I’m sure this was the intention and line of thinking behind the feature. It assumes you don’t have both dashed and solid lines in the same context, but I haven’t run up against a need to do that yet.