join command

[Anonymous]

with join command you can only join two straight lines to each other? and they must be either touching each other at their ends or the must be collinnear?

i tried all other possibilities such as joining polylines, arcs, intersecting lines with lines or polylines etc.... nothing else worked....

and once you join, you can not explode, but you can only break it as if you are breaking an originally single object right?

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

>> with join command you can only join two straight lines to each other?

You can also use command _JOIN  with polylines, arcs (also splines, depending on your version of AutoCAD).

And yes, endpoints have to match to be able to create one curve of multiple objects.

If that does not work for you then please show us a dwg-file with the entities which can not be joined and let us know your version of AutoCAD.
You can also try to use command _PEDIT with then option _JOIN.

>> and once you join, you can not explode

This is only valid for the situation, you had to colinear lines which you joined, then yes, the endpoint of line 1 and startpoint of line 2 will then be cleaned up.

- alfred -

[Anonymous]

Sorry I am still not able to join anything

and by the way you wrote _join....

is _join and join same thing or different?

please see attached

[j.palmeL29YX]

@Alfred.NESWADBA  wrote above: "And yes, endpoints have to match to be able to create one curve of multiple objects.". Your endpoints don't touch each other.

And no, join and _join don't do different things. The difference is, join works only in the english AutoCAD version, _join in all ather languages too.

cadder

[neaton · Accepted solution]

JOIN works on any combination of polylines, splines, lines, and arcs but the endpoints must match XYZ coordinates. You can window multiple elements to join many at one time as I did in the snip below. If the ends don't match use the FILLET command with a radius of 0 (or hold the shift key when selecting elements).

Use the EXPLODE command to explode to individual elements or hold the CTRL key to select individual segments in the pline.

Nancy

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@Anonymous wrote:

with join command you can only join two straight lines to each other? and they must be either touching each other at their ends or the must be collinnear?

i tried all other possibilities such as joining polylines, arcs, intersecting lines with lines or polylines etc.... nothing else worked....

and once you join, you can not explode, but you can only break it as if you are breaking an originally single object right?

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