cleaning up overlapping arcs

[ron.mak]

This is a follow up to my previous post on overlapping lines.  I have attached another simple drawing as a sample which contains one arc, with three additional arcs drawn on top using the Nearest snap.  Unlike my previous example of straight lines, break crossing objects does nothing.

In my "real world" case, things have gotten entirely out of control.  It seems that my arcs have been converted to polylines with many short segments.  Put two (or more) of these segmented polylines on top of each other when they don't align and running break crossing objects takes a drawing that should have about 20,000 entities and makes it 80,000 entities.  I don't know if that drawing can be fixed/reapaired into something more usable so I am considering going back to the source drawings and starting from scratch.

[diane.cloutier]

Hi Ron,

I also could not find a way to eliminate the overlapping arcs using MAPCLEAN, however there is a core AutoCAD command, OVERKILL, that did the job beatifully on your sample drawing.  I just used the default values in the dialogue box.  I also created a short Chronicle video to demonstrate my results: https://chronicle.autodesk.com/Main/Details/253a0fa5-4d42-41bc-be1b-6885b2f0f40b 

Hopefully it works as well in your "real world" drawing as it does here.  Please let us know your results!

Thanks,

[ron_mak]

That is fabulous! Thanks.

[diane.cloutier]

Glad to hear that!  Thank you!