Added option to import DXF polylines as lines or as arcs (Enhanced)

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Added option to import DXF polylines as lines or as arcs (Enhanced)

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I tried to use this option but the geometry is still imported as line segments. has anyone used this feature?
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Re: Added option to import DXF polylines as lines or as arcs (Enhanced)

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Scott Marshburn wrote:I tried to use this option but the geometry is still imported as line segments. has anyone used this feature?
Scott,

If your geometry coming in is line segments, it won't convert them to arcs. There was an issue found that sometimes when bringing in a DXF, the reader for DXFs would break some arcs into line segments. If we did a full update on the reader, polylines wouldn't work as they were previously. So to keep everyone happy, a toggle was added in.

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Re: Added option to import DXF polylines as lines or as arcs (Enhanced)

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Just wondering were to find the toggle, could someone post a screen shot? Is it just when poly lines are detected?
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Re: Added option to import DXF polylines as lines or as arcs (Enhanced)

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So this is the poly line I am trying to bring in, and it breaks it into short lines.
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Re: Added option to import DXF polylines as lines or as arcs (Enhanced)

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The polyline has to be originally created with line and arc segments. A "spline" like you have illustrated will be broken into small lines as there are no original arc entities which define it.
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Re: Added option to import DXF polylines as lines or as arcs (Enhanced)

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David Giesbrecht wrote:Just wondering were to find the toggle, could someone post a screen shot? Is it just when poly lines are detected?
It is available in two places, Contour Mode of Part Editor, and Shape Manager.
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Re: Added option to import DXF polylines as lines or as arcs (Enhanced)

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Here is an example of a polyline created with arc and line segments. Note: You need a panel of x=42, y=60.
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Re: Added option to import DXF polylines as lines or as arcs (Enhanced)

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Thanks Brad and Clint. Also Ecabinets, great feature. The top one was a poly line the bottom was a spline.
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