Dear Dorico Community, I am trying to create a schematic worksheet. I do not need barlines, but I need equal distances between dashed lines. I tried to delete the barlines, but it changed the whole layout, which I would like to keep as it is — three bars per line. Is there a way to achieve clean, equal distances between all the dashed lines without messing up the layout? Thank you in advance!
You could set the default barline type for the flow to be dashed (on the Barlines page of Notation Options) and then set the gap/dash settings on the Barlines page of Engraving Options such that the barlines themselves don’t draw.
Thank you, Daniel, for such a quick response. I was able to achieve nearly everything I needed except for equal spacing between the dashed lines. Is there a way to achieve this automatically, or do I need to tweak everything manually in Engraving Mode > Horizontal Spacing?
If a barline is present, even if it’s not drawn, then it will add space. You would need to use open meter and not have any barlines at all in order to not have the space taken up by the barlines.
OT: @mipi and @meixner, questions about the use of staff-spanning, note-aligned vertical (dashed) lines (preferably system-attached) came up in a few recent threads. I’m curious: how do you add these?
I made one vertical line attached to the first note, adjusted it, then just multiplied the note together with its line with R, so they are note attached, I fear.
EDIT example:
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Thank you for all your responses. Yes, meixner, this is nearly exactly what I wanted to achieve, and I managed to do it. Just I would like to have 6 Notes per bar, not 18😊 I manually selected all the first notes in Engraving Mode > Vertical Spacing and moved them to the left all at once. Adjusting 99 bars wasn’t a big deal—I did it in 4 minutes. Thank you very much for your help! Thank you Daniel for your input😊
Aha! Even better, because no tuplet trickery involved. (I had made a 6/8 bar with an 18:6e tuplet)
Thank you for your help and helpful video:)
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And I have learned something too … 
Every time I’m trying such a thing it’s amazing how stable things are in Dorico, or in other words: they just stay put reliably. I remember with some horror trying some special solutions in Finale and then hoping & fearing that it will not fall apart with a little change in layout, hand holding everything. The peace of mind I have now in this regard is speaking volumes about Dorico’s well planned internal structure 
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