Community
AutoCAD LT Forum
Welcome to Autodesk’s AutoCAD LT Forums. Share your knowledge, ask questions, and explore popular AutoCAD LT topics.
cancel
Showing results for 
Show  only  | Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Reducing vertices in PLINEs

3 REPLIES 3
Reply
Message 1 of 4
RLStanford
2566 Views, 3 Replies

Reducing vertices in PLINEs

I'm using AutoCAD LT 2011. I like the feature whereby I can 'hover' over a polyline vertex and then select 'delete'. Neat. However, when I offset a polyline, the new polyline always has about 10,000 vertices and I'd like to simplify it. Even with the 'hover' feature it will take me until Christmas to simplify the offset polyline. Is there some way to 'weed' the polyline vertices - that is, eliminate many at once rather than one-at-a-time? I've tried holding down 'Ctrl', 'Shift', and 'Alt' when selecting vertices - no joy - no multiple select that I've been able to find. Otherwise, is there some sort of system variable (or some other trick) that I'm not aware of that will keep me from generating so many vertices on the offset polyline? Thanks.
3 REPLIES 3
Message 2 of 4
Anonymous
in reply to: RLStanford


Are you offsetting a splined
pline?  If so, decurve the original before offsetting.  Offset then
spline them again.

 

 

John

 

 


style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
I'm
using AutoCAD LT 2011.  I like the feature whereby I can 'hover' over a
polyline vertex and then select 'delete'.  Neat.  However, when I
offset a polyline, the new polyline always has about 10,000 vertices and I'd
like to simplify it.  Even with the 'hover' feature it will take me until
Christmas to simplify the offset polyline.  Is there some way to 'weed'
the polyline vertices - that is, eliminate many at once rather than
one-at-a-time?  I've tried holding down 'Ctrl', 'Shift', and 'Alt' when
selecting vertices - no joy - no multiple select that I've been able to find.
Otherwise, is there some sort of system variable (or some other trick) that
I'm not aware of that will keep me from generating so many vertices on the
offset polyline?  Thanks.
Message 3 of 4
RLStanford
in reply to: RLStanford

John -

Thanks - that solved a lot of the problem. I still have some PLINEs that have jillions of vertices (that I got by importing someone else's contour lines) - but at least I can work with the PLINEs that don't already have all those vertices. You just saved me 90% of the work I would have had to do.
Message 4 of 4
Charles_Shade
in reply to: RLStanford

That has MACRO written all over it.
Regards, Charles Shade

Can't find what you're looking for? Ask the community or share your knowledge.

Post to forums  

Autodesk Design & Make Report

”Boost