The dotted line is a universal means of highlighting certain information in the text, on the diagram, on the map. The dotted line can indicate one route, while the other is already indicated by the solid line. However, you can apply it as you like - it remains only to draw.
Instructions
Step 1
First, you need to choose what to paint with. It all depends on your goals, preferences or conditions that you are bound by. Whatever you draw, the principle will be the same: you need to draw a line, as it were, consisting of many short segments. These segments can be of different lengths (this is also a matter of taste): from dots to short lines two to three centimeters long. In any case, this set of segments should give the impression of a single line, and not separate, unconnected lines.
Step 2
This dotted line drawing is only suitable for those who like (or have to for some reason) use a pencil. You can draw a solid line and erase the areas that will be the gaps between the individual lines. This method should only be used if you have a good eraser, otherwise the edges of the segments will be blurry.
Step 3
If your line doesn't need to be curved, use a ruler. You can draw short segments at once by putting a pencil to the ruler, or, as in the second method, you can first draw one line, and then use an eraser to break it into parts.
Step 4
The same can be done on a computer. There are many graphic editors in which you can draw as many dashed lines as you want. Drawing capabilities vary from program to program. For example, in some you have to erase parts of the line, in others you can immediately create a dotted line.
Step 5
One more method can be used. Take a punched card (a sheet of thick cardboard with the same holes) and draw a line so that it goes along the row of holes. The pencil trail will go partly over the cardboard, partly over the paper, and a dotted line will remain on the paper. But you are unlikely to resort to this method in the presence of others, simpler to implement.
