@Anonymous wrote:
.... It appears that I am referring to vertices. .... I was able to explode and I believe I was able to join but I was not able to locate consolidate. I'm using a 2016 student version of autocad. I also tried to get the PLDiet, but I didn't really understand what or how to deal with it. The only area I could download anything was 'download this tip' and when I opened it it looks like coding I would place somewhere, but not sure where.
[I misled you in one thing -- the option to consolidate collinear Lines is not in the JOIN command as I mistakenly recalled, but in the OVERKILL command. You can just use OVERKILL on the Polyline without Exploding it, and make sure the box for "Combine co-linear objects when aligned end to end" is checked. That will remove excess intermediate vertices that are collinear. But it looks from your image as though that isn't a likely situation.]
Put the PLDiet.lsp file in some known folder location, and in the drawing, type APPLOAD [or just its command alias, AP], navigate to where you put the file, and Load it. Then the PLD command will be available. Follow the prompts. It looks, from your image, as though it can straighten most of those couple-or-several-segments-long edges of the leaf serrations, if you give it a maximum length that's a little longer than those, and accept the 15-degree default on the maximum change in direction to straighten, which will prevent it from removing the "teeth" points.
But I'm not sure whether that's really what you want to do. A "smoother cut path" might mean you really want to replace those stretches with arc segments, rather than straighten them. That could be tedious, but one way to do it would be to first PLD it to straighten them, and then pick the Polyline and go around [if you have a new-enough version of AutoCAD] hovering over the midpoint grips and choosing the "Convert to arc" option, and pulling the midpoints off a little to add some bulge.
Kent Cooper, AIA