Problem with PEDIT to Extrude Shape

[Bill Tillman]

I have a picket for a fence we're building and the manufacturer supplied me with a CAD file for it. It's an odd shape ornamental aluminum part and I'd like to PEDIT it so I can extrude it and make it part of a 3D model. There are some splines as well as lines in this shape and for some reason I cannot get the PEDIT command to close it. Any advice would be appreciated.

OK, I tested this with the JOIN command and got what I was after. Learn something new every day.

[Jack_O'neill]

Turn the splines into polylines one at a time, then join them.

[eldon]

Pedit does not work with Spline curves. However, if you Flatten the Spline, it becomes a polyline.

[Jack_O'neill]

Pedit will convert a spline to a polyline, but you have to enter a precision. Thats why I said do them one at a time. Looks like this after it's extruded:
pedit.JPG

Here is the command line sequence:

Command: pedit
Select polyline or [Multiple]:
Object selected is not a polyline
Do you want to turn it into one? <Y> y
Specify a precision <10>:

[eldon]

Isn't progress marvellous

You used to be able to do them all together, and now you can do them one at a time.

[Jack_O'neill]

What it won't do is convert a spline during the "join" option. You have to convert them one at a time first, then it will join them. When I did the one on the inside (or, to the right in Bill's drawing) then joined it, it found 77 segments!

[rvpas]

You can use Presspull too
Home tab/Modeling panel/PressPull
Click inside your boundary area and give height
Bye
Pascal

[JD Mather]

There are some splines as well as lines in this shape and for some reason I cannot get the PEDIT command to close it.

As indicated - presspull does not have the limitation of requiring a closed polyline.
You can have any combination of lines, polylines, splines, circles and arcs form your boundary with presspull.

No need to convert splines to polylines, no reason to PE Join, no need to flatten.
Since release 2007 you should almost always be using presspull rather than extrude.

[Jack_O'neill]

As indicated - presspull does not have the limitation of requiring a closed polyline.
You can have any combination of lines, polylines, splines, circles and arcs form your boundary with presspull.

No need to convert splines to polylines, no reason to PE Join, no need to flatten.
Since release 2007 you should almost always be using presspull rather than extrude.

I didn't even know presspull existed till I got 2010 and still rarely use it. Just can't seem to remember that it's there for some reason.

[JD Mather]

I didn't even know presspull existed till I got 2010 and still rarely use it.

http://home.pct.edu/~jmather/AU2007/...P%20Mather.pdf
see page 5
and Tutorial 1 in my signature.