Apparently you have to set your current active layer to “per standard” (so… Not a layer) for the centerlines to go to the layer specified in document properties. Note that while you can change the active layer in the Layer Properties dialog, you can’t set it to “Per standard” or “None” from that dialog. You have to pick it from the dropdown in the Layer toolbar.
For a moment I forgot the “per standard" inside layers drop menu…another pain of mine
Would have been nice for my VAR to tell me this when I reached out to them about it.
VAR support is hit or miss. Too many interns or fresh out of school engineers I think. There are good experienced people there, you just don’t know who you’re going to get.
I made a macro that will set existing centerline linestyle to “Center” without putting them on a different layer or manually setting them:
just to confirm: does this new “improvement” breaks our legacy data when opening them in sw 2025?
I mean a dashed centerline is rendered as solid if the layer is not dashed?
This new behavior only affects center (and center mark) creation. It won’t change the line type of existing center marks, their layer (if they were on a different layer (probably rare)), or layer settings. In short, existing annotations on legacy drawings are unaffected.