add elips in polyline

ellipse is actually a spline. you must trace over it with polylines or arcs.. I use divide and set my spaces pretty close then set my Osnap on node & go. HTH Rob

You can't use a true ellipse. Instead, set PELLIPSE to 1 to force AutoCAD to approximate your ellipse with a polyline; you can then trim, PEDIT, etc. to your heart's content. ___

Try to use boundary. Draw the ellipse, draw your pline, than make a new boundary and it wil create a region. It's not a polyline but if you need it for hatching it works.
Jan
"Paul Turvill" schreef in bericht news: snipped-for-privacy@whidbeytel.com...

It's impossible join an elips with a polyline but I have a lisp command that convert a spline into a lwpolyline... The name is CONVSPL
syntax: (load "convspl") CONVSPL
(defun C:CONVSPL (/ gru index index2 color ltype P0 nspline ent lisent) (setvar "CMDECHO" 0) (setq gru (ssget) index 0 nspline 0 ) (repeat (sslength gru) (setq ent(ssname gru index)) (if (= (cdr(assoc 0 (entget ent))) "SPLINE") (progn (command "SPLINEDIT" ent "REFINE" "E" 20 "X" "X") (setq lisent(entget ent) color(cdr(assoc 62 lisent)) ltype(cdr(assoc 6 lisent)) index2 0 P0(cdr(assoc 10 lisent)) ) (command "LAYER" "SET" (cdr(assoc 8 lisent)) "")(command "PLINE" (trans P0 0 1) )
(repeat (length lisent) (if (= (car(nth index2 lisent)) 10) (command (trans (cdr(nth index2 lisent)) 0 1) ) ) (setq index2(1+ index2)) )
(command) (if (/= color nil) (command "_CHPROP" (entlast) "" "COLOR" color "") )
(if (/= ltype nil) (command "_CHPROP" (entlast) "" "LTYPE" ltype "") ) (entdel ent) (setq nspline(1+ nspline)) ) ) (setq index(1+ index)) ) (princ "\nConvertite ")(princ nspline)(princ " spline.")(princ) )
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Thanks you all. I'll try it out!
Wouter
"Runt" schreef in bericht news:c2825a$tv8$ snipped-for-privacy@news2.solcon.nl...

I'm a little confused, how do you use this?
I copeid the bit after "(defun...." into notepad and saved it of as an *.lsp I loaded the lsp into acadwin.
I type convspl at the command line, it promtps me to select something, which I do (an ellipse) it I press enter and it exits the routine. Nothing has happened. What am I doing wrong?
DJE

The LISP "convspl" converts a spline into a polyline. It can not be used to convert an ellipse into a pline.
Juergen
"Daniel J. Ellis" schrieb:

Again, depending on the accuracy required, a SPLINE is created when you try to offset an ellipse. Offsetting the offset back gives you an *approximation* of an ellipse, which could then be used by this routine to make a polyline......

Wouldn't it be easier to follow Pauls suggestion and draw the ellipse while PELLIPSE = 1? So you get a pline and can join it to other lines/polylines/arcs.
Juergen
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