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

[Scott Marshburn]

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

[Clint Buechlein]

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.

-Clint-

[David Giesbrecht]

Just wondering were to find the toggle, could someone post a screen shot? Is it just when poly lines are detected?

[David Giesbrecht]

So this is the poly line I am trying to bring in, and it breaks it into short lines.

[Brad McIntosh]

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.

[Clint Buechlein]

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.

-Clint-

[Brad McIntosh]

Here is an example of a polyline created with arc and line segments. Note: You need a panel of x=42, y=60.

PolyLine-Example-With Arcs.jpg (12.72 KiB) Viewed 16931 times

[David Giesbrecht]

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