hello!
i want to divide a line into segments with specific lengths(like measure command) but i want these segments to be independent of the original line.
Draw a first point at the endpoint of the line. Then use the command arraypath. Follow the instructions in the command line.
If you have further questions, ask again.
Maybe i misunderstood your question. What do you mean with "independent of the original line"? Or do you mean the divide command?
cadder
Jürgen Palme
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To split a line into any segments with a given length manually
- you need some points at the line (command _measure)
- you have to break the lines at this points (command _break, 1st breakpoint one of the points, 2nd breakpoint the same point again; repeat this at each point - and at each of the lines ;-( )
If you have thousands of lines to modify this way, I suggest to ask in the LISP forum for a LISP routine to do this. Because there are several ways to do this, describe your intention as exactly as possible.
cadder
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If it were in DIVIDE rather than MEASURE fashion, that is, equal-length segments, I can offer SUBDIVIDE.lsp, with its SD command, available >here<. That could probably be modified easily enough to work in MEASURE-like fashion. It would involve COPYing each original object [which can be anything BREAKable, not just Lines] and working on the copy, which is simple enough, whether or not it goes onto a different Layer. Presumably the User would be asked for the MEASURE length increment, with the same one applied on all objects in the selection?
Kent Cooper, AIA 
@Anonymous wrote:
.... why the Subdivide.lsp doesnt work on my polyline?
The error says: "Nothing selected, or object is not a finite path type, or is on a Locked Layer; try again"
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Is it in fact a Polyline, not something similar but not Breakable, such as a Leader, or something with no length, such as a Ray or Xline? Is it in fact on an unlocked Layer? Is it a top-level Polyline, not one inside a Block? Is it on the DEFPOINTS Layer with Layer 0 turned off or frozen? Post a drawing file, preferably with nothing in it but that.
My current version of that has been edited since the one in the link. I don't remember what I changed, but in case it makes the difference, try the attached.
Kent Cooper, AIA