PEDIT won't convert from line to polyline

[madcowscarnival]

There is a post very similar to this, though it has something to do with how a drawing was exported from another program.  My problem is: the PEDIT command won't give me the option to convert a line "I" add to a pline.

PEDITACCEPT: 0 or 1, problem remains

It is a drawing from an house designer, I am adding structural members and notes over the drawing.  I could xref, but I need to move/erase some of their notes as well.  It becomes cumbersome to switch to the source dwg, edit & save, move to current dwg and refresh, to have the note where needed.

This is a pretty strange to me drawing file.  It seems that a bunch of system variables are altered and hopefully it doesn't migrate over to files originating from my machine.

Thanks for any ideas in advance.

[pendean]

Does PEDIT give you an error message?

You also want to add the "line" to an existing PLINE? Is there a gap (the ends of the two objects don't meet)?

LIST command and select one of these "lines", see if you can confirm the object is a LINE entity and not something else.

[madcowscarnival]

Apparently this is something I've just never tried to do before.  Assign a pline->width to a circle.  It was my assumption that as it worked on all other shapes, it would work on a circle, it doesn't.  I guess a closed arc will suffice.

Is this the case?  It just won't convert the circle into a pline.

[pendean · Accepted solution]

Correct, does not work on Circles: try a DONUT instead (yep, it's a command not a smartass reply LOL).

[ScottHodges]

You could always BREAK the circle, turn it into a polyline with width, then EXTEND the polyline arc

[hwalker]

You can create a polyline circle yourself, but it can be temperamental at times

Choose you start point. Press A for ARC, choose the direction at type the diameter of the circle, and then close.