Line stroke with even dash spacing

[sarak28584490]

Hi, I'm looking for a way to create even spacing between dashes on lines. As you can see with the black line below, the line is stroked and dashed, but the spacing is uneven, and the dashes don't show up on the bottom half of the line. How do I create even spacing of the dashes along the entire line?

Thank you

[John T Smith]

Please post the name of the program you use so a Moderator may move this message to that forum

-A program would be Photoshop or Dreamweaver or Muse or Illustrator or ???

[sarak28584490]

Thank you, I'm using Illustrator.

[meganchi]

When drawing a stroked line, do you have "dashed line" selected in your stroke panel? You can make adjustments to the width of the dashes and gaps in the strokes panel.

[John Mensinger]

sarak28584490  wrote

How do I create even spacing of the dashes along the entire line?

In the Stroke panel:

• Enter a value in the first dash field = all dashes and all gaps will be that size
• Enter a value in the first gap field = all gaps will be that size

[Larry G. Schneider]

What you show would happen if the path is not joined correctly. If you use the Direct Select tool (White arrow) and click toward one end or the other, does the whole path highlight?

[jane-e]

Hi Sara,

Just from looking at your image, we can’t tell if it is one line, multiple lines, or possibly a fill with a white stroke.

How was it created?

~ Jane

[sarak28584490]

Thank you for everyone's help.

The line came from a KML file. Here is a snapshot of the line selected with the direct selection tool with the dashed/stroke window open. I'd like to see the dashes show up on the bottom half of the line.

[michelew83603738 · Accepted solution]

You are not getting an even spacing because the setting in the dash and gap isn't even. You have 15, 5, 4, 5 which will automatically lead to an uneven pattern. Try just entering values in the first dash and gap values. You may need to play with the values til you come up with what you want.

[Larry G. Schneider]

With this line selected can you show the appearance panel in another screen shot?

[tromboniator]

Even with your current dash and gap settings the appearance is vastly different depending on which alignment setting you choose.

Peter

[Peter Villevoye]

So, to sum it up:

You need to balance the gap and dash numbers, AND check the alignment option as well !!

Unfortunately I can't mark two answers as the right answer, so take them both at heart.

[sarak28584490]

Thank you!

[macpawel]

Maybe another option is creating a Pattern Brush

Try to prepare Pattern brush and start with any dash size you need - it's nice option I hope