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Closed polygons using sketch tool

heloisamuzzi — Tue, 07 May 2024 14:59:26 GMT

Hello!

I only recently discovered the "SKETCH" tool to draw freehand polylines, however I'd like to be able to close these polylines, forming polygons at the end. So far I've been closing them with the "CHAMFER" tool, the fastest solution I found. For context, I am drawing a decal of an image, and it would really help me to know if there is a fast way to draw freehand polygons with minimum clicks.

Re: Closed polygons using sketch tool

Patchy — Tue, 07 May 2024 15:08:49 GMT

Try polyline edit, when they are polyline, select all of them and use Property Pallet, use Closed, choose YES.

Re: Closed polygons using sketch tool

pendean — Tue, 07 May 2024 15:08:44 GMT

SKETCH command does not have that ability: you could try using PEDIT command's CLOSE function after creation, quicker that CHAMFER or FILLET, if you like the results. Then you can automate that with a LISP, and address all the other Sketch settings in there too like

Re: Closed polygons using sketch tool

j.palmeL29YX — Tue, 07 May 2024 18:22:31 GMT

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Re: Closed polygons using sketch tool

Patchy — Tue, 07 May 2024 19:56:04 GMT

Cool, my dinosaur Autocad gave me no options for line, polyline......

Re: Closed polygons using sketch tool

Kent1Cooper — Tue, 07 May 2024 20:35:33 GMT

@Patchy wrote:

... no options for line, polyline......

That's the SKPOLY System Variable.

Re: Closed polygons using sketch tool

j.palmeL29YX — Wed, 08 May 2024 06:51:15 GMT

my dinosaur Autocad gave me no options for line, polyline......

@Patchy

Das muß aber eine sehr dino-ige Version sein. Das von Dir Gezeigte kenne ich nur in den Versionen bis 2010. Bereits ab ACAD 2011 zeigt der Skizze-Befehl die obigen Optionen. 😉

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Re: Closed polygons using sketch tool

Patchy — Wed, 08 May 2024 11:20:11 GMT

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