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Happy New Year everyone!

I have wondered about this one for years and finally decided to ask the forum.

When doing an spb fill on a shape that contains a small radius arc, I often, but not always am not able to execute the fill. By small, I am talking about less than 1/64". The program simply doesn't perform a fill using Contour Search.

I try to cheat the program by creating a polyline and then filling the entity, but DataCAD returns a similar but not exact shape, where the small radius arc is returned as a straight line instead of an arc.

NEWS FLASH!
By taking the time to write out this challenge, and examining my post to see if I had properly described the issue, I decided to try changing the accuracy in Settings. I changed to 1/256 and bingo! my shape was drawn accurately.

So this forum is helpful sometimes even before I post my question.

Thanks again for being there. I thought I should post this in case someone else might benefit from it.

joe

UPDATE

Changing accuracy in Settings does not work in more complex cases (with several curves of small radius).

However, I found another workaround: If I Enlarge the shape by a large factor, DataCAD will allow me to convert the lines into a polyline, then I can SPB fill the entity, then I need to shrink the entity by the inverse factor of my enlargement. The curves are returned accurately.

Takes quite a few extra keystrokes. Is there a more elegant way within DataCAD to achieve the same result?

joe