Arc joining to polyline

Arc joining to polyline

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Arc joining to polyline

Anonymous
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Everytime I try to join some arcs together to create a closed object, Autocad join them in a spline and not in a polyline made of arcs. It may be caused by that a lot of these arcs are tangent to the neighbour arcs? How can i solve this?

Thanks for the support.

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imadHabash
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Hi,

it supposed from PEDIT / JOIN commands to convert to polyline as i have here . 

 

Command: PEDIT
Select polyline or [Multiple]: m
Select objects: Specify opposite corner: 3 found

Select objects:
Convert Lines, Arcs and Splines to polylines [Yes/No]? <Y>

Enter an option [Close/Open/Join/Width/Fit/Spline/Decurve/Ltype gen/Reverse/Undo]: j

Join Type = Extend
Enter fuzz distance or [Jointype] <0.0000>:

 

EDIT : Make sure that you don't have any arc item as a SPLINE because if you have any spline object while joining then you will have a spline CAD item . 

 

Imad Habash

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imadHabash
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also you can by SPLINEDIT command , convert your spline to polyline . 

 

Imad Habash

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Kent1Cooper
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I agree with @imadHabash that if the result is a Spline, one possible reason is at least one of the "arcs" is really a Spline.  Another possibility is that the Arcs, though their ends meet, do not lie in the same plane.  If that's the case, PEDIT's Join option will not work, anyway.

Kent Cooper, AIA
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Anonymous
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Thanks @Kent1Cooper and @imadHabash  for the fast answer. I tried the @imadHabash methos and I ended up with not being able to join some pieces because, like @Kent1Cooper said, they're not in the same plane. I'll attach the result to this reply. The problem is that these polylines have the same elevation. Should I do a workaround with the PROJECTGEOMETRY?

 

EDIT: Even with FLATTEN, the FILLET command doesn't work

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imadHabash
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i suggest in your case to try BPOLY command to create a closed polyline . 

 

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Kent1Cooper
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@Anonymous wrote:

.... The problem is that these polylines have the same elevation. ....


They won't join because they do not all have the same extrusion direction.  The Z-axis direction for some of them is down into the page rather than up off the page.  The BOUNDARY method is certainly easier than any other way of fixing that.

Kent Cooper, AIA
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