Additional editing operations are available for changing the shape and display of polyline objects. You can also join separate polylines.
You can modify polylines in several ways using PEDIT, the Properties palette, or grips including the following:
Polyline Join This program is effectively a wrapper for the standard AutoCAD PEDIT command, allowing the user to join multiple sets of lines, arcs & polylines without needing to traverse the various prompts issued by the standard command. Join Polyline Segments You can join a line, an arc, or another polyline to an open polyline if their ends connect or are close to each other. If the ends are not coincident but are within a distance that you can set, called the fuzz distance, the ends are joined by either trimming them, extending them, or connecting them with a new segment.
Select a polyline, spline, line, or arc to edit. If you selected a spline, line, or arc, press Enter to convert the selected object into a polyline. Enter j (Join). Select one or more polylines, splines, lines, or arcs that are located end to end. Polyline.JoinEntities requires the given entities to be other, unclosed Polyline or Polyline2d, Line, and/or Arc entities, which share common start or end points. To handle the 3D polylines, you have to convert them to lines/2D polylines (of course all the entities must be in the same plane). Apr 04, 2013 Hello, could you please help me to join two features (geometry type: polyline), knowing that these datasets do no have common parts (they are disjoint)? Which ArcGIS tool would be appropriate to solve this problem? Thank you for your advice. Best wishes, Malgosia.
- Move, add, or delete individual vertices
- Set a uniform width for the entire polyline or control the width of each segment
- Create an approximation of a spline called a spline-fit polyline
- Display noncontinuous linetypes with or without a dash before and after each vertex
- Change the orientation of text in a linetype assigned to a polyline by reversing its direction
Jan 13, 2010 I'm having trouble using the Join command to join an arc to a polyline. The Command line shows that I have selected 1 object to be joined to the polyline, but then, when I hit Enter to execute the command, it says that 0 objects were joined to the polyline. I suspect that it may be because the arc. Sep 12, 2017 If you are using AutoCAD 2013 or older, you could have problems with the objects. In order to join two objects, they have to be polylines (in the newer versions you can directly join polyline with line, arc, etc. To convert line or arc to polyline you just have to type in PE (PEDIT) and click on the object.
Join Polyline Segments
You can join a line, an arc, or another polyline to an open polyline if their ends connect or are close to each other.
If the ends are not coincident but are within a distance that you can set, called the fuzz distance, the ends are joined by either trimming them, extending them, or connecting them with a new segment.
Spline-fit polylines return to their original shape when joined. Polylines cannot be joined into a Y shape.
If the properties of several objects being joined into a polyline differ, the resulting polyline inherits the properties of the first object that you selected.
Modify a Segment Within a Polyline
Join Two Polylines Autocad
You can modify a segment in a polyline using the MOVE, ROTATE, or SCALE commands. You select the single arc or line segment, also called a subobject, within a polyline by pressing Ctrl when you click it.
Polyline In Autocad
You can also use the Stretch, Move, Rotate, and Scale grip modes to modify the polyline segment. Properties of polyline segments such as color or linetype, cannot be modified individually, but you can use the Properties palette to modify the width of individual segments.
See AlsoTrim or Extend Objects
Break and Join Objects
