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Zach Edwards posted 06-23-2026 11:21

I feel like I am missing something here. Is it possible to set a linestring to smooth versus straight other than per individual segment in the edit linestring command. I have played with the simplify linestring command from ANZ; however, I am not trying to simpflify but rather smooth out the line. Here's the scenario. Curb and gutter extraction was performed on a drone-derived lidar dataset. The QA/QC step in the extracting curb and gutter command was forgotten. I am trying to retroactively set to smooth after the linestrings were formally generated. Thanks and let me know.

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Quan Mueller posted 06-23-2026 11:49  Best Answer

How about "Toggle Segments Straight/Curved" at the top of the Edit Linestring command?

Looks like it toggles all straight segments to "Smooth Curve" and vice-versa.

If you regularly need this for multi-select, I think it's a fit for Revenant Core (low-cost, base module) and could add a command for it.

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Zach Edwards posted 06-23-2026 12:38

I feel like an idiot now. What's odd is taht you HAVE to be in the edit linestring command to run that toggle straight/curved. 

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Quan Mueller posted 06-24-2026 11:35

Don't feel bad - there's tons of TBC functionality scattered around the UI...

I just checked - this Toggle Straight/Curved button has been there since at least TBC v5.00 (Fall 2018), and likely much earlier than that. I may have implemented it. I probably asked whether it should also be a separate command and was told it wasn't necessary.  (I did check if it is a "hidden" command, and I didn't find it.)

There are so many edits that are possible with CAD, and pre-5.00, TBC had menus/toolbars, so the UI real estate was already very crowded - probably one of the reasons it's just an Edit Linestring button.

But like I mentioned, if you regularly need to do it on a ton of lines, just ping me and I can add it to Revenant Core - with extensions, we don't have to fit every command on default ribbons ;-)