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Terrence Simon posted 05-16-2024 10:24

I've noticed that when working with linestrings and polylines, there is a difference in the scale I must use for each type of line in order for a line style to display at the correct scale in the dynaview within the sheet view. Linestrings seem to keep their respective scale from the plan view to the dynaview, but polylines must be displayed at a much lower scale in order for the dynaview iteration to be accurate. This display will persists through creating PDFs or printing. 

The problem with having to work like this is, I essentially have to choose between being able to see the correct display scale in either the plan view, or the sheet view. I can of course convert the polylines to linestrings in which case everything gets displayed at the correct scale, but I haven't been able to find a way to do this in mass. With drawings with hundreds, if not thousands of lines, it's just not efficient to individually select each and every polyline. 

My questions are:

Is this difference in scales a feature, or bug?

If it is a feature, could I turn the difference off, or edit the scale that polylines seems to automatically adapt to?

Is there a way to convert a bunch of polylines into linestrings without needing to select them individually?

Thank you,

Terrence

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Katie Byron

Not too sure about it being a feature or not, but you can convert "en masse" using the "Convert to Linestring" command. Can't remember which version of TBC it came in, but has been in for a while. Definitely sometime after v4.1 as that's around the time that I was asking for this command - specifically for bringing in an original design that was exported in .dxf to a data collector (before Siteworks would take .vcl files) and convert all the lines into linestrings so that the surface would build how I wanted it to (say every 10 or 2m or something) whne editing a design slightly.