LWPOLYOUT Variable does not work
Even when you set this variable to off, it still changes all of the polylines to lwpolylines when you exit the drawing.Can this be fixed?Also is there a way to draw regular polylines instead of lwpolylines?And is there a way to change lwploylines to regular polylines?
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The LWPOLYOUT variable controls wether LwPolylines have to be converted to normal Polylines when saving the file; it does not control the type of polyline when you draw them.The PLINETYPE variable controls wether you want to draw normal polylines or LwPolylines. Available settings are: 0 = new polylines created are normal polylines, Existing (normal) polylines are not converted to LwPolylines, 1 = new polylines created are LightWeight polylines, Existing (normal) polylines are not converted to LwPolylines, 3 = new polylines created are LightWeight polylines, Existing (normal) polylines will be converted to LwPolylines, So if you only want to use normal polylines you should set LWPOLYOUT to 0, and PLINETYPE to 0.May I ask why you want to use normal polylines instead of Lightwieght polylines?Note: no build-in conversion from LwPolyline back to normal polyline exists. If you however save the dwg as a R13 file the LwPolylines will be converted back to normal polylines.
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Our company uses alot of polylines in our drawings, mostly contours, and so we have an autolisp routine that allows us to edit the properties of more than one polyline at a time.Unfortunatly, it does not handle Lwpolylines, so we need to have them stay as regular polylines when we exit out of the drawing.Thank you for the help, setting the plinetype worked.
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It is in fact a small bug. Intellicad currently enforces the use of lwpolyline for new polylines if PLINETYPE is 2, at least with the pline command.It would be more consistent (and compatible with acad) if icad would only make an lwpolyline if the data entered allows this simplification. Otherwise it would make a polylineSo if you create a polyline with different widths , intellicad should never convert it to lwpolyline.(or at the least the user interface should not let you try it)PLINETYPE =0 is a workaround until we provide a fix, regards, Alexander Van Heuverzwynbricsnet
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