Hi BEAR17,

I don't know if i understood well but if your goal is to quickly draw simple dashed lines,
you can use those very useful scripts written by Max Smirnov and MARTIN3D.
To be more precise, those are by Max : PatternSelection, _PointsOnCurve, FatLines,
and this is by MARTIN3D : HatchIt.

In the attached images you can see two examples of using those scripts.

You can find all those scripts in the thread http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=7862.1 i wrote some days ago,
unzipping the archive indicated in the point "Step 5" of the instructions.

Hope this can help, have a nice day,

Marco.