I need to stroke a path with a dashed line. The lengths of the line segments should be around 2" (precision isn't important here) but the gaps between the segments needs to be exactly 0.016". Then I need to expand the appearance of this path so the gaps are still present when I export it to DXF.
I have a zillion files to do this to, so any streamlining of the process that is possible is very important.
What I've tried:
- I've tried using a dashed stroke, but that expands as filled shapes rather than a single segment.
- I've tried using various custom brushes to produce a dashed stroke. Expand appearance gives me a chopped up path (like I want) but I can't figure out any way to make the gaps precise. Gap width is all over the place.
- I've also tried creating a grid, expanding the appearance of the grid, and then subtracting that from the underlying path. This of course adds extra paths to the interior of the shape, which must be manually deleted.
- I've tried doing web searches for similar questions, but come up with nothing.
I appreciate any help you might have with this!
