ABoganIN Posted September 13, 2011 Posted September 13, 2011 (edited) (AutoCAD 2008 ) I have many polylines that have been splined so many times that they have a ton of vertices, so many that my program stops working when I click on the line. I have begun to draw new lines to get rid of the slow, horrible lines, but I have come to a problem. How do I get rid of the old lines if I can't click on them without my program locking up? I can't just turn their respective layers off because I have important things on the layers, and it would be a humongous hastle, not to mention the fact that I like a clean file with no random layers that just sit there never used. Any help would be great! Also, any tips to create this from happening in the first place would also be great! Thanks! Edited September 14, 2011 by Tiger changed smiley Quote
ABoganIN Posted September 13, 2011 Author Posted September 13, 2011 Ugh..I'm using AutoCAD 2008. That smiley came out of nowhere! Quote
nestly Posted September 13, 2011 Posted September 13, 2011 The slowness is likely due to AutoCAD calculating the area of the polyline. If you have the Properties palette open (even if it's docked or minimized) close it and you should be able to select it without AutoCAD doing all the intense calculations. This also applies to QuickProperties (if that was in 2008) Quote
ABoganIN Posted September 13, 2011 Author Posted September 13, 2011 I had the properties palette docked, so I closed it completely. But the problem didn't go away..... Quote
irneb Posted September 14, 2011 Posted September 14, 2011 You could issue the Erase command before selecting anything. Then pick the pl's. That should allow you to erase it at least. Otherwise you might look for a lisp called WEED to reduce the number of vertices, perhaps that might work, just Google for it. Quote
SLW210 Posted September 14, 2011 Posted September 14, 2011 Using Qselect is the best way to get them selected and removed. Were these lines created by Civil3D or some other verticle? Have you tried running an Audit and using -PURGE (note the -) and purge regapps, zero-length geometry and empty text objects? Quote
Tiger Posted September 14, 2011 Posted September 14, 2011 a very slow way to do it would be to use PEdit and Straighten the Polylines....I don't know if there is someway to use that in a Lisp-setting to help with this problem. Quote
ABoganIN Posted September 14, 2011 Author Posted September 14, 2011 Thanks! I'll try your tips and see if I can get something to work! Quote
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