using the join icon vs join in pedit command

[sarahtheresh]

what is the difference btwn using the join icon and joining lines using the pedit command?

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

open my attached drawing, run _PEDIT (and option _JOIN) and look at the resulting objecttype and the number of vertizes. Next again open my drawing and do the same with command _JOIN. Now you have the major difference found 😉

(please rename the file back to .dwg)

- alfred -

[sarahtheresh]

The drawing doesnt open as a dwg drawing. can you try reposting it? thank you

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

do you have renamed the file to .DWG ... and do you have AutoCAD 2013 or 2014? What message do you get when you try to open the file?

I have attached now the same drawing saved as DXF2010, hopefully that works.

- alfred -

[sarahtheresh]

thanx so much. now i see there is a difference. when i use the join icon it becomes one segment with one set of grips which cant be edited and when i use the pedit icon you can edit at the point which used to be the end of every segment.

is that the only difference?

thank you very much!

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> [...] is that the only difference?

For colinear lines there are two differences:

a) the resulting object is a line (whereas using _PEDIT it get's converted to a polyline)

b) vertices are cleaned as you already stated.

And that's it (nothing more to be found in the help) 😉

- alfred -