Exploding Wide PLINEs of Varying Widths

Has anyone come up with a way to explode varying width PLINEs ( Heavy or Light ) into LINEs and ARCs and maintaining it's outline? TRACEs or 3DFACEs would work just as well. It's the edges I need to access. And it doesn't have to be all that accurate.

I can do consistent width entities, not variable.

Thanks -David

PS: any Release of ACAD would be fine

WPLINE.DWG

Plot to DXB ??

outline.dwg

That's a possibility. I would want to plot a single entity. But that might be doable.

UCS ....

Elevation ...

Thickness ...

They could be problems.

Thanks! -David

I don't know whether you are looking for a graphical solution or a Lisp solution.

But for a graphical solution, I tampered with Express Tools Text explode, so that it explodes lines. The picture shows an exploded polyline (which then separates into closed polylines similar to the outcome of TextExplode). Then I drew a rectangle to contain the Boundary polyline, which shows the edges.

Explore WMFOUT and WMFIN.

I remember a similar request at Autodesk Forum, but I can't find it.

The solution was to draw 2 new polylines, tracing polyline's outline.

Explore WMFOUT and WMFIN.

That is the procedure used by TextExplode, which has the added advantage of keeping the scale

I don't anything on text explode ( 2012 ). Sorry

Graphical wouldn't be my 1st choice, but may be a solution, although very time consuming.

Thanks -David

Text Explode = TXTEXP command.

Explore WMFOUT and WMFIN.

Wow. i did not know that.

I don't anything on text explode ( 2012 ). Sorry

 

Graphical wouldn't be my 1st choice, but may be a solution, although very time consuming.

 

Thanks -David

I probably did not say it quite right the first time, but I tweaked TextExplode to give me a lisp to explode lines. TextExplode does NOT do that.

This a link to where I posted it before