Stroke dashed

[Piter1288]

Can anyone explain how the calculations for the "dashed" strokes work?

I have separated circles manually with 30 px rectangles but if I use 30 px as the gap this is the result I get:

I  played with the number but the closest I could get was 31 by putting 81 in the gap field

[Jacob Bugge]

Piter,

When you use Round Cap/Join with no (0) dash you need to add the Stroke Weight to the gap, in this case 50+30 = 80.

[Piter1288]

Hi Jacob!

I had played a bit with the numbers, but I couldn't get an even result. The total width of the shapes + spaces should be 370 and I get 368.99 as you can see below. I always use round numbers to avoid decimals but somehow they are always there!

[Jacob Bugge]

Piter,

It depends on the exact total length of the line that you dash.

What happens if you set it to 320?

[Piter1288]

Well, the real problem is with the "expand" function which always messes up final results. Yes I can put a 320 line but the final width and circles will end up with decimals and circles are now paths with 3 extra anchor points in them so I need to use "real" circles and then align them again.

[Met1 · Accepted solution]

the dash settings don't determine the length of the line, drawing it does, uncheck proportional constrain and just type in 370...