Thankyou Quan, that worked for me. I discovered that the the cannoscale in the template I use for those drawings is set to 1/8"=1'-0". Set it to 1:1 and problem is solved.

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Sat Jan 03, 2026 2:37 pm

.... or what drawing I am working in

I should correct this. If I open a new drawing and create some dashed lines, it works as expected. So it must be something about the way these schematic drawings are set up. Perhaps conflicting properties somewhere? I am not sure yet.

Perhaps someone would be willing to open this file on their PC and see if they get the same results that I do. The lines in the screen shot are set to a scale of 0.08 and are displayed as continuous lines.

Does anyone have problems with dashed line types appearing solid? It seems when I close a drawing or the CAD program the dashed line-types will appear solid upon reopening. It doesn't matter what version of CMS or what drawing I am working in. It is also not a very repeatable problem which makes tro...

Thanks @sln8458, at least I now know it's not a problem on my end.

The view counters in this forum seem to be misleading. A post like this one has over 4000 views but no replies. Is this forum actually very active but nobody bothers to post anything?

We recently purchased 14.0 PE+ upgrade with the intention to run it alongside version 12.0 PE+. Version 12.0 works fine until version 14.0 is installed. Then 12.0 will no longer open a new drawing or an existing drawing. Is it not possible to run two versions on the same PC anymore? In the past we s...

So why not insert the downloaded file? Just personal preference I guess, one other thing I do as well is label each block with the part number of the component which makes for easy identification. Sometimes I will add attributes, such as labels, to a block that I have multiples of and it saves time...

I have a HP Zbook running Win10 pro with 16 GB Ram. GPU is NVIDIA T1200. I design industrial control panels and they typically have quite a few components. If each component is a block, it makes for easier and simpler design. It makes moving objects around much easier if they are blocks. Attached is...

Okay, I came up with a workable solution. I set my GRIPOBJLIMIT to 10000 (was previously set at 100). Now the circles disappear when I press ESC. It still takes awhile to create a block, but that might be just because there is a lot of entities.

Thanks Stephen, I am still not sure what is causing the issue. It seems to be related to displaying the splines in the drawing, as those blue circles only appear around splines. Also, if I convert a spline to a polyline, the circles go away.

Here is a link to download the drawing file from the OEM's website. https://www.se.com/us/en/product/ATS480 ... o-230v-ac/

Download the file named: ats480_sB_2DFront.dwg

Hi, can somebody tell me what is the issue with this drawing file? CMS opens the file correctly, but when I select all entities, some odd blue polygons appear at various places. The only way I find to make them disappear is by re-opening the drawing. Also, if I select all and try to create a block C...

E-mail recieved and replied to.

Hi Steve, If you are still looking for beta testers for your addon I would be happy to give it a shot.
If there are any specific things you want me to try feel free to ask.

I will fill out the contact form on your website.