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January 11, 2023
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Dash is 7 pt in the Properties panel also I can see 7 dashes (including sharp bend one) in the graphic. But gap is 0 pt in the Properties panel but there are 6 gaps in the graphic. How can I understand this differences?

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Correct answer Monika Gause

Thank you.

Illustrator has the highly irritating habit to enter 0 in all fields automatically. If you enter a zero, then it will be really zero. If you don't, Illustrator will show a zero, but actually use whatever is entered as a dash and use it as the gap length. This throws you opff-track? yes, me too.

Omar.Fathy

Community Expert

The problem is that you added the second dash with 0 in the value and you didn't add its gap. If you remove this "0", it will work well.

MahaB82AAuthor

Legend

No change if I remove "0".

MahaB82AAuthor

Legend

Here is the adobe link

https://assets.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:US:3dc6fbc5-1e31-43d0-b777-8bb5942f8239?view=difile

Monika Gause

Community Expert

There you set up the length of the dash and the gaps. But still this is weird. Can you perhaps upload the file to Creative Cloud and post a link?

MahaB82AAuthor

Legend

Here is the file

https://easyupload.io/utc8pn

Monika Gause

Correct answer

Community Expert

Thank you.

Illustrator has the highly irritating habit to enter 0 in all fields automatically. If you enter a zero, then it will be really zero. If you don't, Illustrator will show a zero, but actually use whatever is entered as a dash and use it as the gap length. This throws you opff-track? yes, me too.

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