AutoCAD 2007/2008/2009 DWG Format

[#1]

when i try to make a region from a closed polyline, i get the following:
1 loop extracted.
1 loop rejected.
Vertex with degree greater than two : 1 loop.
0 Regions created.

and no region is created, does any one know why?

[#2]

Explode your polyline and check for multiple lines (or arcs) exactly on top of each other. The OVERKILL command may help you with that.

[#3]

thank you

[#4]

Hi together,

I have the same problem, but my polylines does not have duplicate lines or points, which can be removed.
The polylines touches each other, and in this case the region command failed too.
Any suggestions?
Below I try to show a simple polyline in ASCII characters (use font courier), which is not able to transfer into a region.
Thx!

Peter

+--------------+
|              |
|   +------+   |
|   |      |   |
|   +--++--+   |
|      ||      |
+------++------+

[#5]

Hi,

please attach the drawing, otherwise these words and your sketch are conflicting:

first statement:

>> but my polylines does not have duplicate lines

second statement

>> The polylines touches each other

So for me it's not clear at the moment if your vertical lines in the lower-middle part are drawn with a distance or not.

Just as a guess I think you try to visualize an island. For a region - representing an island - you don't need to draw this way, just create the outer rectangle with one poly, the inner with another polyline, convert them to regions and use command _SUBTRACT to make a hole in the outer region.

- alfred -

[#6]

Thx Alfred, for your response!
The duplicate polylines in my sketch have no distance, the lines overlap exactly.
The problem is, that we have hundrets of drawings, containing polylines in that shape. And you are right, the purpose is, to show an island. My task is, to create a converter for automatical processing of these polylines.
Meanwhile I get response from Autodesk, they told me, that polylines in that shape are impossible to process by REGION command.
Regards,
Peter

[#7]

Hi,

>> My task is, to create a converter for automatical processing of these polylines.

Do you have Map3D or Civil3D to handle that job? If so the MAPCLEAN could help you out of this issue I think. Otherwise it will be development of a tool that finds vertizes in a polyline that are equal to another one within the same poly (and so get the overlapping segments).

- alfred -

[#8]

The program is for vanilla AutoCAD. My initial sketch was just one sample. Searching for identical lines or identical points is not the right way. Sometimes the polylines have following shape. There are no identical points, but the lines touches each other (as before there is no gap between the lines).
+--------------+
|              |
|   +---+      |
|   |   |      |
|   +--+|      |
|      ||      |
|      |+------+
|      |
+------+

Any other suggestions, to get a either a region object or an object like the BulgeVertexCollection from .Net API where I can retrieve inner and outer loops?
Regards,
Peter

[#9]

Hi,

are there ARCs in the polylines? Or are there curved or splined polylines also in your project?

are they 2D or 3D? (I guess now 2D)

I would start with scanning through each vertex of a poly and verify if it's laying on another segment, if so you can insert (in a temporary copy of the original poly) that vertex within the other segment, At the end you have vertices on all intersection-points and now you can start with scanning for overlapping segments.

Also maybe interesting: try command _OVERKILL (AUFRÄUM) on these objects, that gives you results that are worth to test on your data.

- alfred -