AutoCAD - 2D Polyline to 3D?
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Where - in this behemoth of an application - is the function to convert 2D Polylines (Polylines with an Elevation property) into a 3D Polyline (So one can set the Z height of each vertex induvidually)?
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To the best of my knowledge, there is no 2D or Lightweight PLINE to 3DPOLY conversion built into AutoCAD. There may be some sort of LISP (or other language) routine around that would walk through a 2D polyline's vertex data and use it to create a 3DPOLY entity/object. I've used AutoCAD since version 1.7 and I remember being disappointed and not having much interest in the 3DPOLY entity type when it was introduced because it didn't (understandably) support arc segments so I never got around to writing a routine like that.
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PEDIT3Dhttp://www.black-cad.homepage.t-online.de/pediten.htm - an AutoCAD lisp file to turn selected lines and arcs [and I think 2d polylines] etc into a 3D polyline... where you can edit each vertex and move it
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You're telling me that AutoCAD has no such feature built-in?
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Nope. Not built-in. I checked on my AutoCAD Architecture 2011.
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@thomthom said:
You're telling me that AutoCAD has no such feature built-in?
I can do it easily with Civil 3D. Can you send me just the stuff you want converted?
Rick
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I think the Civil 3D version just has something like the lisp loading automatically.
You'll need to appload it in other AutoCADs or add it to the lisp of lisps to auto-load...
The lisp seems to do what you want ?
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