Polyline

Hi I don't know what I've changed but my polylines are coming out as rectangles?! Please help to get my settings back to normal!

Try setting PLINEWID to "0".

It worked! Thank you very much

It did? Praise the Lord and pass the mouse!

That makes the ninth correct answer this year. I'm on a roll!

Just kidding there Brisa17. My weird sense of humor.

Welcome to the CADTutor forum.

Mark:

We found similar happenings a few years back, reported this to Autodesk, and got back via internet some PDF or TXT format document that metioned unexplained "Quirks" within Autocad that they were working upon. About a dozen unexplained quirks, and the polyline was just one of them. Basically what happened was that arcs, if upon a "closed" polyline, then got changed just prior to plotting and became secants. Still a polyline, but visually wrong. It did not happen on open ended type polylines. We called it "Sucking In" for it rarely happened, but always a closed polyline was involved, and the curves then went into the inside. My only solution was to SAVE too many times. And do not imediately exit upon creating the polyline or the sucked in condition would become permanent.

This was not anything new as Autodesk was aware of the situation (circa 2007) and were working upon a cure, so they mentioned.

You think they finally found out the problem and cured it?

Wm.

Sorry but I can't answer that having never encountered the problem myself. Until you mentioned it I had no idea it could even happen.

Who knows what motivates AutoDesk to do what they do? Except for the $$$$ part that is.

Mark:

It is my assumption that sometime after version 2004, the situation of the irregular polylines was solved via a new routine on this old subject. Never saw that mentioned in the pre-release disks I saw.

Wm.

Sounds like a problem with the WhipArc variable.