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First off, I don't understand what a polyline is. That is, I don't understand how it differs from a regular line. How can a LINE have a "cap"? It only has 2 dimensions. so it's NOT a line, right?

Anyway, I have opened a DWG to work on from my Architect, and his storefront systems are made of polylines. I am trying to insert a door, but the ARCH menu, Doors do NOT search or find walls made of polylines. So I would like to convert those poly lines to regular lines. I tried to use explode, but that just made them disappear.

Any ideas?

George,

Go to the Polyline sub-menu of the Curves menu and select Edit. Now select Poly To Line and select the polylines you wish to convert to lines and arcs.

Regards,
Dave

A polyline is usually a multi sided object, like a square, rectangle, circle, etc.
Your walls might really be rectangles.
Sounds like you would be using the old wall system, so you might also want to run Lin2Wall macro after you have converted, then the 2d doors should cut the walls. Not sure if that still comes with the typical install?

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Jorge

Recent change in "Line to Poly" command.
When selecting multiple groups of lines, the new polylines vanish.
i.e. Drawing 5 rectangles. Select "Line to Poly" command, then select each rectangle. items vanish, esp after "U".
I don't see anything, but the Layer count shows multiple items, zoom out/refresh "Invalid Zoom Window defined"
Close and repair, still nothing.