topic Re: merging or combining plines that are overlapped or end-e in Modeling

merging or combining plines that are overlapped or end-end

rob2218 — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 16:39:49 GMT

is there a way of merging or combining plines that have overlapped or are simply two plines end to end?
I know in the other 2D program from Autodesk...there was a "join" function that allowed ends of plines to 'join' and become one pline.

Re: merging or combining plines that are overlapped or end-e

Anonymous — Sat, 26 Mar 2016 13:42:13 GMT

rob2218 wrote:
is there a way of merging or combining plines that are simply two plines end to end?

Edit/Reshape/UNIFY is the right command. NOT for overlapped ones.

Re: merging or combining plines that are overlapped or end-e

rob2218 — Sat, 26 Mar 2016 13:43:29 GMT

thanks, I'll try that one.....I knew there had to be something...anything by way of making end to end plines merge...

Re: merging or combining plines that are overlapped or end-e

rob2218 — Sat, 26 Mar 2016 13:46:56 GMT

ok, I had two plines end to end on different layers and with different pens, didn't do a darn thing.
I selected both plines, clicked on the "Edit>reshape>unify" function and nothing happened.

Re: merging or combining plines that are overlapped or end-e

Anonymous — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 09:59:43 GMT

For me everithing is OK.
I have 3 plines, each of them on different Layer and with different Pens. I select the Blue, then the Green and last the Red polyline, then pick the "UNIFY" icon and it works. Now I have one polyline with Layer and Pen set by the last selected polyline segment.

Re: merging or combining plines that are overlapped or end-e

rob2218 — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 13:21:35 GMT

What would be the sequence of the steps?
Select first pline.....then what?

Re: merging or combining plines that are overlapped or end-e

Anonymous — Sun, 27 Mar 2016 16:22:51 GMT

1. Select the plines (with window - from left to right; crossing window - from right to left; one by one;....)

2. Pick the icon "Unify"

3. Done

Re: merging or combining plines that are overlapped or end-e

rob2218 — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 15:28:56 GMT

OK, something discovered today. Here's why it wasn't working.
if the pline is "open" ended, meaning the two ends done make a closed looped...then the function UNIFY will work.

If the pline is a closed loop....the function doesn't work, bummer.

Re: merging or combining plines that are overlapped or end-e

rob2218 — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 15:30:19 GMT

Re: merging or combining plines that are overlapped or end-e

rob2218 — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 15:32:16 GMT

So...what i was hoping was that I could grab a bunch of plines...say from a manufacturer like a window sill profile and make it into ONE pline...but since the window sill (as an example) is a closed loop...it won't work....again..bummer.

Re: merging or combining plines that are overlapped or end-e

Dave Seabury — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 22:29:53 GMT

Try selecting the Polyline tool, and then magic wand the lines that form the closed loop.

Worked for me

David

Re: merging or combining plines that are overlapped or end-e

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 22:56:20 GMT

rob2218 wrote:
So...what i was hoping was that I could grab a bunch of plines...say from a manufacturer like a window sill profile and make it into ONE pline...but since the window sill (as an example) is a closed loop...it won't work....again..bummer.

Yeah, that used to work, but is apparently broken now. Hadn't noticed until now.

Re: merging or combining plines that are overlapped or end-e

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 00:32:00 GMT

Just experimented with two multi-sided polylines. They would not Unify. But, when I exploded them to individual segments (still individual polylines - if you want line use the Linework Consolidation command) they did join to a single multi-sided polyline.

Re: merging or combining plines that are overlapped or end-e

Katalin Borszeki — Tue, 24 May 2016 01:50:10 GMT

Dear Stuart, the problem you mentioned with unifying closed polylines was a bug in ARCHICAD 18 which has been fixed only in ARCHICAD 19. Thanks, k

Re: merging or combining plines that are overlapped or end-e

Anonymous — Tue, 24 May 2016 03:10:02 GMT

KatalinBorszeki wrote:
Dear Stuart, the problem you mentioned with unifying closed polylines was a bug in ARCHICAD 18 which has been fixed only in ARCHICAD 19. Thanks, k

Excellent, thanks.

Re: merging or combining plines that are overlapped or end-e

Katalin Borszeki — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 11:59:50 GMT

Dear Stuart,
The problem you mentioned with unifying closed polylines was a bug in ARCHICAD 18 which has been fixed in ARCHICAD 19 only.