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: Dashed line checked, but not working I’ve never made a dashed line before. Thought it would be simple enough: I went to stroke, checked dashed line and set my dash and gap on the stroke

@Moriarity648

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I’ve never made a dashed line before. Thought it would be simple enough: I went to stroke, checked dashed line and set my dash and gap on the stroke I made with the paintbrush.

You can see this here:



However, my line remains not dashed. Why isn’t it working? I need dashed.

Still not working:

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@Cofer715

Maybe your file is not set up to letter 8.5 x 11 and is too small and your dashes will not appear due to the size of the file.

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@Ravi4787994

It's because of the paintbrush selected - change the stroke brush to 'basic' and then the dashed line will show :-)

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@Fox8063795

Change your Dash Line Settings in Stroke panel. By default the first box should read 12 pt and all other boxes should remain blank. Then you can adjust the dash style as you wish.

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@Moriarity648

Alright - for anyone who needs this, you have to go to Appearance > Clear appearance then do it all over again. Not sure why but. There you go

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