Joining Crossin Entities

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to join multiple crossing lines without using the block command... I'm attempting to convert a .dwg to a .svg, when I do, all of the lines that weren't joined pile together in a big mess within the .svg format.  However, I'm not able to join crossing lines on AutoCAD it seems

[Kent1Cooper]

JOINing Lines is for those that meet at their ends, either into longer Lines if they're collinear, or into Polylines with those Lines becoming Polyline segments.  The only ways I know to "join" Lines that cross each other  would be to define them into a BLOCK [why don't you want to do it that way?] or put them into a GROUP.

[I know nothing about .svg format or its uses, so I can't advise on any other way to get there.  But are there alternative ways to make the conversion?  If the way you're using gives the result you describe, I would think the fault is in that, not in the Lines.]

[john.uhden]

I don't know what you mean by joining lines that cross, unless you want them grouped together as one apparent object.  You mentioned using blocks.  If that really does work for you then I recommend using anonymous blocks because there is no need to give them a name and if they are exploded or erased there is no need to purge them.

If that would help, attached is my UBLOCK.lsp