Automatically dividing up a polyline

[Anonymous]

Please, can anyone tell me how I can divide up a polyline into equal segments, with a marker block at each point with text that automatically increments by 1 at each insertion? Possibly also offsetting the original pline so that the markers can be aligned perpendicular to the original line? If this is not clear, what I am trying to do is mark out the chainage along the centre-line of a road in 100m intervals; using 'measure' and inserting blocks at each individual point takes forever.
Also, I can't always get plines to join, even if they have been drawn in the same session, on the same UCS and on the same layer, with same linetype, width etc. Any suggestions?

[Anonymous]

"pate" wrote in message
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> Please, can anyone tell me how I can divide up a polyline into equal
segments, with a marker block at each point with text that automatically
increments by 1 at each insertion?<

Try the DIVIDE command. It has an option to insert a block.

Enjoy,
Stef
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[Anonymous]

Thanks, Stef, I will ue the block option next time. Do you know a way of automating the text attribute to increment by 1 all along the line?
It is very tedious editing block attributes one by one 445 times. Thanks for yooour help, somehow I blanked out the 'block' option when using 'divide'. Thick, or what? Pat.

[Anonymous]

"pate" wrote in message
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> Thanks, Stef, I will ue the block option next time. Do you know a way of
automating the text attribute to increment by 1 all along the line?<

For number's here's what I do:
Button1: ^C^C_setvar;userr1;1;
This sets the variable USERR1, user-real-number, to 1 as my applications
require starting from 1. This can also be done by typing in USERR1 at the
command prompt, which is what I do rather than have a button.

Now for what does the job: (warning - join at the + for toolbar button)
*^C^C_attedit;y;*;*;*;\;_value;_replace;$m=$(getvar,userr1);;+
_setvar;userr1 ;$(+,1,$(getvar,userr1));

You'll still have to pick each attribute, but the macro auto-repeats so it
is quicker.

Enjoy,
Stef
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