PLINEGEN Not Behaving As Expected

When PLINEGEN is set to 1 the linetype is supposed to be drawn from one end of the pline to the other instead of vertex-to-vertex. However, I find that plines with many closely-spaced vertices don't respond as described. Is there a way to force the linetype to display correctly in this situation?

Comments

  • It's possibly due to how you created the polyline. If you've created the polyline from existing entities by using JOIN, then the setting of PLINEGEN is ignored. Instead it depends on the line type generation settings of the individual entities and how you select them when joining.

    Jason Bourhill

    CAD Concepts Ltd

    cadconcepts.co.nz

  • That may be what's going on — the example shown started life as a spline, which was then flattened to a lwpolyline, which was then converted to a heavy polyline.

    Thanks for the insight, even if it doesn't solve the problem!