CADPower->Polyline Tools

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The Polyline tools are a set of tools for performing various types of editing and inquiry operations on polylines.

Toolbar : Polyline Tools  
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Join Join 3D Polylines 
Command line: CP_3DJ 

Joins 3D segments (lines or polylines) and combines them into a 3D polyline. The PEDIT command does not allow  joining of 3D segments. This command fills the need by allowing the Join subcommand to be applied on 3D polyline segments or lines. The segments to be joined must be exactly touching each other.

Once the command has been issued, the prompts that follow are similar to the PEDIT command. You are prompted to select polylines. If a line has been selected, you are prompted to convert it into a polyline. Then you select the objects to join. All touching segments are joined to the first segment resulting in a joined 3D Polyline.

Select 3d polylines/lines to join (or ENTER to select by layer[s]):
Select objects: (do so)

If you are selecting multiple layers for processing, CP_3DJ will join them individually in their respective layers. They will not be joined across different layers except if they are selected explicitly from the command line.

See Also: CP_PLJOIN

CP_3DJ Tutorial

Toolbar : Polyline Tools   
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Join Automated join 2D Polylines
Command line: CP_PLJOIN  
Automatically fuses (joins) all selected line or polyline objects together. The objects should be touching each other at their ends.

See Also: CP_3DJ

Toolbar : Polyline Tools
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Change 2d-3d-2d Change 2D to 3D Polylines
Command line: CP_CH2D3D 

Converts all the selected 2D Polylines to 3D polylines. A 3D polyline can hold different Z values in each of its vertex. The new 3D polylines thus formed will look exactly like the 2D polylines except that internally they are 3D and therefore can hold Z values.

The standard object selection dialog appears and allows polylines and lines to be selected. Click Apply and all the 2D polylines are converted into 3D polylines. The original 2D polyline will be erased.

Tech Info: CP_CH2D3D changes the DXF Group Code 70 of each polyline, adds the 8 bit and recreates a 3D polyline. The 3D polyline thus created has the 3D flag set. The 3D polyline acquires new handles but any extended entity data in the 2D polyline will be transferred to the 3D polyline.


CP_CH2D3D Tutorial

See also: CP_CH3D2D

Toolbar : Polyline Tools  
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Change 2d-3d-2d Change 3D to 2D Polylines
Command line: CP_CH3D2D 

Converts all selected 3D polylines and lines into 2D polylines and lines. Depending on the setting of the PLINETYPE variable, the 2D polylines thus formed will be either heavy weight polylines or light weight polylines. 

While creating the 2d polylines, you can specify the constant elevation that the 2d polylines should acquire.

The following options are possible:

Set to 0.0
Lowest Z of each 3d polyline
Highest Z of each 3d polyline
First vertex elevation
Average of all vertices (default)

The standard object selection dialog appears and allows polylines and lines to be selected.

Click Apply and the all the 3D polylines and lines are converted into 2D polylines. The original 3D polyline will be erased.

Tech Info: CH3D2Dchanges the DXF Group Code 70 of each polyline, removes the 8 bit and recreates a 2D polyline. The 2D polyline acquires new handles but any extended entity data in the 3D polyline will be transferred to the 2D polyline.

See also: CP_CH2D3D

Toolbar : Polyline Tools  
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Vertex Management Delete polyline vertex
Command line: CP_DELVX 

Allows picking a polyline vertex and deleting it in one step. A handy shortcut resulting in much fewer mouse clicks than using the PEDITàEDIT VERTEXàNEXT.... 

Toolbar : Polyline Tools  
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Vertex Management Insert polyline vertex
Command line: CP_INSVX 

Pick any point along a polyline and add a vertex at the picked location. A handy shortcut resulting in much fewer mouse clicks than using the Pedit->Edit Vertex->Next..... 

See also: CP_DELVX and CP_XV (Express PEDIT commands)

Toolbar : Polyline Tools  
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Vertex Management Densify polylines
Command line: CP_DENSIFY 

This command can be used to add extra vertices to the polylines, i.e. 2D or 3D based on the "Number of segments" and "Length of segment"




Densify Method
Number of segments: Densifies or adds vertices with specified number of segments.
Length of segment: Densifies or adds vertices with specified length i.e. distance between each vertices.

Tech Info: CP_Densify will not work on polylines consisting any arc segments in them. Such polylines will be ignored by the CP_Densify command and must be pre-processed using other CADPower commands before they can be densified. 

See Example: CP_Densify

Toolbar : Polyline Tools  
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Vertex Management Weed (remove) collinear vertices from polylines
Command line: CP_REM_LINVERTS

The CP_REM_LINVERTS command removes vertices which are collinear. Any three vertices which fall in a straight line are said to be collinear and will be be removed.



Mark locations of removed vertices with points: Checking this box marks points at the location where the linear vertices were removed.

See also:  CP_DENSIFY

Toolbar : Polyline Tools    
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools   Vertex Management Place points or blocks along polyline vertices
Command line: CP_PL_PLACE 

This command places a point or a block at each vertex of a polyline/line. Useful for many mapping and utility applications.

What to place?:

Points: Choosing this option allows to place points on vertices of Pline/Line. On specified layer.  

Blocks: Choosing this option allows to place block on vertices of Pline/Line. On specified layer.

Block Name: Clicking on the button "Block Name" allows to select the block for insertion.
(Note: You can select one block at a time)

Insertion Settings:

Scale Factor: Allows to enter the required scale factor for the block.

Rotation Angle: Allows to enter the required rotation angle for the block.

Which layer to place?:

Source: Choosing this option places the block/point in source object layer.

Current: Choosing this option places the block/point in current layer.

CP_PL_PLACE Tutorial

See Example: CP_PL_Place

Toolbar : Polyline Tools  
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Vertex Management Add / Remove redundant closing (last) vertex from polylines. 
Command line : CP_FIXCLOSED

The CP_FIXCLOSED command helps to add or remove the last vertex of a closed polyline. In other words, this command adds or removes the redundant duplication of the last vertex in closed polylines.

Add Closing Vertex
Adds a redundant "last" vertex to closed polylines. This duplicates the first and last vertex of a closed polyline. The new vertex is added only if the distance between the first and last vertex is greater than the closing tolerance specified in the dialog box above.

Remove Closing Vertex
Removes the last vertex from the polyline if the distance between the first and last vertex is less than the value specified in the dialog box above.

Toolbar : Polyline Tools
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Vertex Management Delete single vertex polylines
Command line: CP_DELSVP

The CP_DELSVP command deletes a single vertex or zero-length polyline from the selected objects. Unlike the CP_0LEN2PNT command which creates a point at every location of a zero-length polyline, this command will delete it from the draiwng.

Toolbar : Polyline Tools  
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Vertex Management Multiple vertex editor for polylines, lines and arcs. 
Command line : CP_MVEDIT

The CP_MVEDIT command is used to edit multiple vertex positions from multiple selected polylines, lines and arcs.

With the CP_MVEDIT command, you can move multiple vertices from many objects at once in the X, Y, Z, XY, YZ, XZ or XYZ directions while keeping the other coordinate unchanged. Think of this as a tool similar to the XYZ point filters in AutoCAD and BricsCAD, but applied across multiple objects and multiple selected points of a polyline, line or arc.

Toolbar : Polyline Tools `
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Vertex Management Specify a new start point for polylines
Command line : CP_NEWSTART 
The CP_NEWSTART command allows to specify a new start point for closed polylines. Use this to change the start point of closed polylines without changing the polyline geometry. The new point specified must fall on the polyline and the nearest vertex is taken as the start point and the polyline is re-constructed.  

Toolbar : Polyline Tools 
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Part Editing Extract part of polyline
Command line : CP_PARTEXTRACT 
The CP_PARTEXTRACT command is useful to extract part of a polyline. You will be asked to pick two points that fall on the polyline and all the segments in between the two picked points will be extracted and a new polyline will be created on the current layer. 

Note: Polylines which have been curve fit using the Fit or Spline option cannot be used by this command. If there are arc segments in the polyline, they will be replaced with their straight line joins.

Toolbar : Polyline Tools
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Part Editing Copy part of polyline
Command line : CP_PARTCOPY
The CP_PARTCOPY command is useful to copy a part of a polyline. You will be asked to pick two points that fall on the polyline and a polyline will be created between these two points and you will be asked to move this polyline and place it at a new location.

Note: Polylines which have been curve fit using the Fit or Spline option cannot be used by this command. If there are arc segments in the polyline, they will be replaced with their straight line joins.  

Toolbar : Polyline Tools
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Part Editing Offset part of polyline
Command line : CP_PARTOFFSET 
The CP_PARTOFFSET command is useful to offset part of a polyline. You will be asked to pick two points that fall on the polyline and all the segments in between the two picked points will be offset using the standard AutoCAD OFFSET command.

Note:
1) Polylines which have been curve fit using the Fit or Spline option cannot be used by this command.
2) If there are arc segments in the polyline, they will be replaced with straight line segments.

Toolbar : Polyline Tools
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Part Editing Stretch part of polyline
Command line : CP_PARTSTRETCH 
The CP_PARTSTRETCH command is useful to stretch a portion of a polyline. You will be asked to pick two points that fall on the polyline and all the segments in between the two picked points will be stretched to a new location. Once the new polyline is created a line is drawn connecting the stretched and un-stretched portions of the polyline. 

Note: Polylines which have been curve fit using the Fit or Spline option cannot be used by this command. If there are arc segments in the polyline, they will be replaced with their straight line joins.  

Toolbar : Polyline Tools
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Part Editing Mirror part of polyline
Command line : CP_PARTMIRROR 
The CP_PARTMIRROR command is useful to mirror only a portion of a polyline. You will be asked to pick two points that fall on the polyline and all the segments in between the two picked points will be flipped (mirrored) with the two picked points as the axis of mirroring. The polyline is updated with the new geometry and retains its handle, Xdata etc. 

Note: Polylines which have been curve fit using the Fit or Spline option cannot be used by this command. If there are arc segments in the polyline, they will be replaced with their straight line joins.

Toolbar : Polyline Tools
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Part Editing Rotate part of polyline
Command line : CP_PARTROTATE 
The CP_PARTROTATE command is useful to rotate only a portion of a polyline. You will be asked to pick two points that fall on the polyline and all the segments in between the two picked points will be rotated using the first point as the base point. The polyline is updated with the new geometry and retains its handle, Xdata etc. 

Note: Polylines which have been curve fit using the Fit or Spline option cannot be used by this command. If there are arc segments in the polyline, they will be replaced with their straight line joins.

Toolbar : Polyline Tools 
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Part Editing Reshape part of a polyline
Command line : CP_PARTRESHAPE
The CP_PARTRESHAPE command can be used to re-shape or, in other words, re-digitize part of a polyline. You will be asked to pick two points on a polyline and will be prompted to pick the new locations of the points in between. The source polyline will then be updated and the newly digitized points will be used instead of the old set of points between the two source points.

Toolbar : Polyline Tools
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Inquiry Statistics Provide detailed polyline statistics
Command line : CP_PL_STAT 

Create output file: Check this option if you want the output from this command to be saved to an ASCII text file.

Browse: Click on this button to select an output file to save the polyline statistics listing

Create tabular output: Creates the polyline statistics in a tabulated form

Treat polyline as elevation view: Checking this option causes the polyline to be treated as elevation view. In other words, the X and Y of the two vertices of the polyline are treated as measurements in the Z plane and the difference between the Y values is taken as the actual elevation difference between the points.

Hide dialog box and run CP_PL_STAT with current settings next time: Checking this option causes CP_PL_STAT to run the next time without dialog box. You will be prompted to only select the polyline to compute statistics and the program operates with the current settings as last set. This setting enables users to run the command quickly without having to navigate through the dialog box each time. The setting remains in place for the current CAD session unless it is reset using the 'CP_ShowDlg' command. 

Table Text Height: Specify the required text height for the contents of table.

An example of the statistical information is shown below:

Polyline properties:
----------------------
Polyline is Open.
Polyline is 2D.
Polyline does not contain arc segments.
This is a clockwise polyline.
Polyline is a light weight polyline.

The picked point is at vertex # 3
The coordinates of the picked point is: 3.4398,4.7316,0
The elevation at the picked point is: 0
Slope Length : 8.3293 Projected horizontal length: 8.3293
Maximum X coordinate : 8.7316 Minimum X coordinate : 1.7754
Maximum Y coordinate : 5.4440 Minimum Y coordinate : 3.3751
Maximum Z coordinate : 0 Minimum Z coordinate : 0
Number of vertices : 7

Press any key to continue.

Longest segment in polyline : 2.1497
Shortest segment in polyline : 0.7631
Average segment length in polyline : 1.3882

CP_PL_STAT Tutorial

Toolbar : Polyline Tools  
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Inquiry Statistics Compute summed areas of polylines in selected layers. 
Command line : CP_LAYERAREA 

The CP_LAYERAREA command displays the total summed area and length of all polylines in selected layer(s).

Select layers: Clicking on this button displays the complete list of layers in the drawing. From this list, you can select the layers for which you want the total summed areas to be displayed and these will be displayed each time the command starts.

Create table of layers areas: Checking this box generates a table of Area, Length and Color of selected layers as shown below.

CP_LAYERAREA Tutorial

Toolbar : Polyline Tools  
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Inquiry Statistics Computes total lengths of linear objects
Command line: CP_LENGTH 

Adds up the lengths of selected lines, polylines, splines, circles and arcs. Displays both horizontally projected length and actual slope length where applicable.

See also: CP_CALCAREA

Toolbar : Polyline Tools   
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Inquiry Statistics Calculate summed areas of closed area objects.
Command line : CP_CALCAREA 



The GT_CALCAREA command sums up the areas of all closed polylines, splines and circles. The area report uses the current unit settings as set in the Area Annotation Settings (see below). The area can also be annotated at the centroidal locations in the form of text objects.

Annotation parameters:

Create area annotation: This option enables creation of area annotation text.

Create annotation at each centroid: This option creates each polyline area annotation at its individual centroid position.

Area Annotation parameters:

DWG units: Specify the drawing units here. The options available are in, cm, ft, meters and yards.

Area Units: Specify the units in which the area must be reported. Available options are dwg, sq.cm, sq.in, sq.ft, sq.m, sq.yards, acres and hectares.

GT_CALCAREA Tutorial

Toolbar : Polyline Tools    
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Inquiry Statistics Compute and display bulge in polyline (arc / fitted) segments
Command line : CP_BULGE 
Polylines that have arc segments in them and those which are curved fitted use bulge value to represent their curvature. These bulge values are stored in the polyline object itself. The GT_BULGE command helps to print out the bulge values at each of the vertex. This can be useful in various debugging situations.

Command: bulge
Select a polyline:
Bulge at vertex 1 is 0.0894 and Radius is 324.302
Bulge at vertex 2 is 0.1412 and Radius is 133.308
Bulge at vertex 3 is 0.0910 and Radius is 262.438
Bulge at vertex 4 is -0.0778 and Radius is 356.879
Bulge at vertex 5 is -0.0477 and Radius is 448.144
Bulge at vertex 6 is -0.0398 and Radius is 642.951

The GT_BULGE command creates POINT objects at each bulge location, in a temporary layer.

Toolbar : Polyline Tools
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools More Editing Express PEDIT
Command line : CP_XV 
Express Pedit allows a faster and quicker way to access some of the Pedit Edit Vertex commands like Move, Insert and Break. Additionally, it also provides extra commands like polyline statistics - slope length, horizontal projected length, X, Y and Z coordinate extents and number of vertices.

Select vertex on polyline:
Next / Previous / Move / Z / Insert / Break / Statistics / Settings / eXit <Next>:

Use Next and Previous to navigate through the vertices of the polyline. The current vertex is always shown with a cross attached to it.

Move allows specifying a new location for the current vertex.

Z allows the elevation of the current point to be set

Insert allows a new vertex to be added between the current vertex and the next vertex.

Break allows the polyline to be broken at the current point. Saves some keystrokes as compared to the Pedit command.

Statistics: Generates detailed polyline statistics

Settings allows specifying whether the Move and Insert sub-commands take the Z value from the new location or inherit it from the current vertex elevation.

An example of the statistical information is shown below:

Slope length:22719.1175 Projected horizontal length:22718.4936
Max. X-coordinate:2025286.6092 Min. X-coordinate:2010210.0148
Max. Y-coordinate:924910.0082 Min. Y-coordinate:913590.4827
Max. Z-coordinate:212.5000 Min. Z-coordinate:45.6000
Number of vertices:15

Press any key to continue.

Tech Info: Make sure that the entire polyline is visible on screen.

CP_XV Tutorial

Toolbar : Polyline Tools  
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools More Editing Multiple PEDIT
Command line: CP_MPEDIT 

This is a global Pedit command applied to multiple polylines. The PEDIT command operates on one polyline at a time. CP_MPEDIT can be used to select multiple polylines and process them. It offers the following commands: Open, Close, Fit, Spline, Decurve, Convert to polylines and Change Widths etc.

If the Convert to polylines option is chosen, CP_MPEDIT will allow selection of lines, arcs and circles as input data.

If Change Width option is chosen, CP_MPEDIT will allow selection of polylines, lines, arcs and circles as input data.

Toolbar : Polyline Tools  
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools More Editing Change widths.
Command line: CP_CHW

The CP_CHW command is useful to change the widths of selected lines, polylines, arcs or circles. Non-polyline objects will be converted to polylines.




Specify the width to set in the width-control dialog box and select the objects to process through the object selection dialog box.

See Example CP_CHW

Toolbar : Polyline Tools 
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools More Editing Explode wide polylines retain width geometry
Command line : CP_XP_WPL 
The CP_XP_WPL command allows Linear polylines with widths to be exploded and to retain the geometry of the original polyline. The exploded objects will be created as lines.

Layer to place  

Source: Explodes the polyline and places the result in the layer in which it was created (source layer)

Current: Explodes the polyline and places the result in the layer which is current

Specify: Explodes the polyline and places the result in the layer selected by the user

Layer-name: Displays the name of the layer selected

Select: Clicking on Select button pops up the select layer dialog box

Delete original objects: Checking this box deletes the original source object after exploding

Toolbar : Polyline Tools
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools More Editing Specify segment lengths in polylines
Command line : CP_SEGLENSET 
The CP_SEGLENSET command is used to specify a new segment length for each of the segments of the polyline. The command will highlight each segment of the polyline one by one in red color and ask for a new segment length. On entering the new length, the polyline is updated such that the segment gets the specified length.

Toolbar : Polyline Tools
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools More Editing Delete segments from polyline
Command line : CP_SEGDEL 
The CP_SEGDEL command is used for deleting one or more than one segment from polyline

Toolbar : Polyline Tools  
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Flip Flip polyline flow direction
Command line: CP_FLIP

Reverses the direction of the polyline vertices. This command preserves the handle (see below for conditions) as well as any extended entity data that is stored with the polyline or with each or any of its vertices (in case of heavy weight polylines).




Direction Control:

Clockwise:
Choosing this option flips all counter-clockwise polylines to clockwise

CounterClockwise:
Choosing this option flips all clockwise polylines counter-clockwise

Interchange: Reverses the direction of all selected polylines irrespective of whether they are clockwise or counterclockwise.

Low to High Z:
Reverses the direction of the polylines whose last vertex elevation (Z value) is higher than the first vertex elevation (Z value).

High to Low Z:
Reverses the direction of the polylines whose last vertex elevation (Z value) is lower than the first vertex elevation (Z value).

Display graphically:
Displays the polyline direction graphically by drawing leader arrows along the polyline segments. Does not slip the polyline.

Retain same object handle for reversed polylines:
Choosing this option ensures that the reversed polylines have the same handle as the original polyline. This takes longer time to process and it does not work on polylines having arc segments. The object handle is always preserved for 3d polylines irrespective of whether the option above is chosen or not. In case of 2D polylines, the object handles will not be preserved unless this option is set. Switching this option off can greatly improve the process speed especially for long polylines.

Hide dialog box and run CP_FLIP with current settings:
By clicking this option, you can run CP_FLIP any number of times in the current session without the dialog box. You will be prompted to only select the polylines to flip and the program operates with the settings last set. The setting remains in place for the current CAD session unless it is reset using the 'CP_ShowDlg' command. 

Tech Info: The extended entity data in the objects will always be retained.

Toolbar : Polyline Tools 
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Flip Flip (mirror) arc segments of polylines
Command line : CP_PLARCMIRROR 
The CP_PLARCMIRROR command flips (mirrors) ONLY the arc segments of a polyline with arcs. This can be a useful tool to flip the direction of polyline arcs in many mapping situations where arced polylines are used to show vegetaion symbols. In particular, this command may be used to fix the polyline arc direction if it has been generated incorrectly by the CP_VEGLINE command in CADPower.

Toolbar : Polyline Tools   
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Fillet Enhanced fillet command
Command line : CP_FILLETPOLY 

The CP_FILLETPOLY command allows filleting to be done between two polylines. The two segments of the polyline nearest to the ends picked will be filletted according to the specified radius.

The command is now offered as a replacement for the standard fillet command, which has several short-comings. For example, the AutoCAD/BricsCAD fillet command does not work correctly under the following situations:
a. Fillet between an ARC and a polyline object
b. Fillet between a LINE and polyline that has arc segments near the fillet end.
c. Fillet between an ARC and polyline that has arc segments near the fillet end.

The CP_FILLETPOLY command processes all of the cases in (a), (b) and (c) above successfully.

Fillet Radius: Specify the radius to be applied for filleting across all the segments of the multiple selected polylines.

Command: filletpoly

Select first polyline: <do so>
Select second polyline: <do so>

Toolbar : Polyline Tools   
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Fillet Fillet multiple polylines 
Command line : CP_MFILLET

The CP_MFILLET command allows multiple polylines to be filleted at once with the Fillet Polyline option.

Fillet Radius: Specify the radius to be applied for filleting across all the segments of the multiple selected polylines.

Toolbar : Polyline Tools   
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Others Offset multiple polylines INwards or OUTwards. 
Command line : CP_INOUTOFFSET

The CP_INOUTOFFSET allows multiple closed polylines to be offsetted INwards or OUTwards with one single command.
Command: CP_INOUTOFFSET
Select Objects: (select polylines to offset)
Offset direction: [ Inwards/Outwards ] <Outwards>: (Type Inwards or Outwards)
Horizontal offset distance : <1.0000>: (Enter horizontal distance to offset)

Toolbar : Polyline Tools 
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Others Explode splined and fitted polylines
Command line : CP_XPSPL 
This command is used to explode splined and fitted polylines. Upon selecting the splined or fitted polylines, they are exploded into their line or arc segment and then joined back to produce a "plain" polyline with line or arc segments. This command is useful to many geographic and surveying users who require a non-splined non-fitted polyline for many design purposes.

Toolbar : Polyline Tools   
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Others Set or remove flowing linetypes for polylines
Command line: CP_FLOW_LT 

In  AutoCAD / BricsCAD , polylines can be set with a flag to determine if flowing linetypes are enabled or not. When flowing linetypes are enabled, the linetype pattern and scale are applied continuously across even small length segments thereby generating the linetype correctly. If this flag is disabled, the linetype pattern is applied each time at the start of a new segment. This may cause improper representation of the linetype in a polyline with very short segments. This command provides a means to set or remove flowing linetypes from selected polylines.  

Toolbar : Polyline Tools 
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Others Zoom to the extents of a polyline or spline
Command line : CP_ZPOLY
Pick a polyline and zoom to the lower left and upper right extents.

Toolbar : Polyline Tools  
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Others Fix objects with different [non-parallel] UCS. 
Command line : CP_FIXUCS 
The CP_FIXUCS command allows lines and polyline which have been created in a different UCS to be brought back to the WCS at the same position.
 

Layer to place  

Source: Creates the new polyline and places it in the layer in which it was created (source layer)

Current: Creates the new polyline and places it in the current layer

Specify: Creates the new polyline and places it in the layer specified by the user

Layer-name: Displays the name of the layer selected

Select: Clicking on Select button pops up the select layer dialog box

Delete original objects: Checking this box deletes the original source object

Toolbar : Polyline Tools  
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Others Draw linear polylines from arced polylines 
Command line : CP_LINPOLY

The CP_LINPOLY command is used to create a linear polyline from an arced polyline. It creates a polyline by joining each vertex of the arced polyline with a straight line. The arced section is thus replaced with a straight line (arc-chord). The CP_LINPOLY command has an option to run without the dialog box selector.

Toolbar : Polyline Tools
      Menu : CADPower Polyline Tools Others Acquire Neighboring polyline elevations 
Command line : CP_POLYGETZ

CP_POLYGETZ command can be used to perform elevation transfer operations from one polyline [target] to another [source] based on specific criteria.

When you start this command, you are asked to select a source and target polyline. Once this is done, you get a dialog box as shown, specify the required Search Tolerance and choose the required operation.

Create a vertex on source polyline nearest to each vertex on target polyline:

In this method, for each vertex of the target polyline, a 3D point nearest to it on the source polyline is determined. The source polyline is then replaced with a new polyine created using all such points which are essentially the nearest points (on the source polyline) of vertices of the target polyline. Therefore, this method results in the source polyline having exactly the same number of points as the target polyline but in the XY region of the nearest point on source polyline and the elevations belonging to the nearest target polyline vertex.

Populate existing source polyline vertex elevations from nearest point on target polyline:

In this method, each vertex elevation of the source polyline is replaced with the elevation of a point on the target polyline which happens to be the nearest point to it [the source polyline vertex]. In other words, this will result in the number of vertices of the source polyline to be the same but its elevation can change based on the target polyline elevations.

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