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AutoCAD Stacked Lines - 5/26/2008 12:36:56 AM   
DAN REISS


 

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Status: offline 		What is the command to locate stacked lines, lines on top of lines. I saw someone use it once. An "X" moved along the lines and stopped when multiple lines or breaks were present. I am using AutoCAD 14. Dan

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RE: AutoCAD Stacked Lines - 5/26/2008 1:22:28 AM   
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Status: offline 		It may not be the command you are thinking of, but try erasing a line by selecting it with a box from the right to the left. If two or more lines are stacked one upon another, the program will tell you how many lines it found.

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RE: AutoCAD Stacked Lines - 5/26/2008 1:42:10 AM   
DAN REISS


 

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Status: offline 		Thanks Laird SS. I do use this technique but the other method I saw was faster for a large drawing. It helped to remove the trash before the tapes were made for the CNC machines. Dan.

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RE: AutoCAD Stacked Lines - 5/26/2008 2:34:23 AM   
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An "X" moved along the lines and stopped when multiple lines or breaks were present.


Sounds like it could be a script or a LISP routine someone has writtten, and not actually part of AutoCAD.

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RE: AutoCAD Stacked Lines - 5/26/2008 4:01:42 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks longdan. That's my initial thought. I learned AutoCAD when I was surrounded by a lot of brainy guys. They were writing LISP's for everything. Unfortunately I do not have them at my disposl anymore. Dan

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RE: AutoCAD Stacked Lines - 5/26/2008 2:10:15 PM   
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Status: offline 		Over at the freeware center of CADALOG there used to be some sort of LISP program that checked for lines smack on top of other lines. Even a portion thereof. I downloaded such, but then bleeped it off my system, as I altered the make-up routines here. Problem there is that this is sort of obsolete now, in the inkjet plotter age. And then too, the LISP guys then to name their programs sort of odd. But you got a search on your hands then.

I think it was based on R-12 but again worked up to R-14 as many did. Go though the current and obsolete sections at CADALOG. There is yet another site offering freewares, but only on occasion o tehy have someting that CADALOG does not, but they also have a trimmed list to pick from.

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RE: AutoCAD Stacked Lines - 5/26/2008 11:06:01 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thank you CoosBayLumber. Dan

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RE: AutoCAD Stacked Lines - 5/27/2008 2:01:29 AM   
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Status: offline 		I think the software was originally designed for those operating pen plotters. For once a wet line goes down OK, is a shame to come back and hit it again with another wet stroke. Tends to either tear the paper or make for uneven blackness which printing. Bad way both ways.

Check for listings on plotting aides then too.


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RE: AutoCAD Stacked Lines - 5/27/2008 3:13:04 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm not familiar with ACAD, but Mastercam has a delete dupilicates function. Maybe ACAD has something similar.

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RE: AutoCAD Stacked Lines - 5/28/2008 2:11:37 AM   
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Status: offline 		It sounds like the polyline edit command. It acts very simila to what is being described. It will ask you to polyline a series of items together, then using the edit command, show you where there are problems with the polyline. It will go to the starting point of the first segment, I think, and then look at all associated items in that p-line until it finds something it's not happy with.

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RE: AutoCAD Stacked Lines - 5/28/2008 2:57:16 AM   
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Status: offline 		Thanks r72cnvt, I used PEDIT and then Edit vertex. The large crosshairs marched across the polyline with each "Enter"until it found an opening and then stopped. However, when there were lines on top of each other it ignored them and kept moving. This is close but I am still looking for stacked lines. Dan

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RE: AutoCAD Stacked Lines - 5/28/2008 2:44:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		For past couple of months now the older CADAdlog site now requires that you purchase a service agreement before any downloading.

But you gone to: http://www.cadinfo.net/ yet?

As back when the older CADALOG site was a helpfull forum, with LISP software requests being taken on an individual basis, it is no more. Look at left panel, for resources and LISP programming. They have more than 1000 routines listed there. Most are obsolete, but will work in R-14 easily. You do know how to activate a LISP program, don't you?



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RE: AutoCAD Stacked Lines - 5/28/2008 4:19:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		Good site CoosBayLumber. The routines look very helpful. I never did load a LISP. Is there anything unique about it? Dan.

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RE: AutoCAD Stacked Lines - 5/29/2008 12:10:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		Try the "OVERKILL" command.

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RE: AutoCAD Stacked Lines - 5/29/2008 3:18:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		I agree with th OVERKILL command, but I think that it didn't come about until ACAD 2004. I use it a lot in 2008 at work though!


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RE: AutoCAD Stacked Lines - 5/29/2008 3:22:30 AM   
DAN REISS