Q: how to *explode* an elipse

[Plaze Monitor]

I have drawn a normal elipse in autocad 2000. I need to *explode* or
convert the elipse into lines or plines or arc or segments of some
type. I've been at it for a while without making progress. I need help
to figure this out. Thanks in advance.

[Doug Brown]

(using R2002) export the ellipse as a R12 dxf (using "select objects" option),
open the dxf file, copy the ellipse (now a polyline) to the clipboard, and paste
into your drawing.

Doug

"Plaze Monitor" <ha...@shaw.invalid> wrote in message
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[Doug Brown]

I'm embarrassed. Really should browse the help files more. An easier way is to
offset the ellipse a set amount (e.g.. 0.1). this creates a polyline spline.
Erase the ellipse and offset the Polyline back 0.1.

Doug

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[Doug Brown]

Now I'm really embarrassed. That just creates a spline. To convert an existing
ellipse to a polyline ellipse the dxf route is the way to go.

Doug

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[Michael]

Forgive my ignorance, but couldn't you just "trace" the ellipse with a
polyline and then erase the the original ellipse?

Michael

"Doug Brown" <db...@telus.net> wrote in message

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[B. W. Salt.]

I think you'll need to explode the ellipse after pasting. Having tried the procedure in R14, the pasted ellipse is not a polyline until it has
been exploded.

[Once Shy]

When PELLIPSE is set to <0>, the ellipse can not be exploded. When
PELLIPSE is set to <1>, the ellipse can be exploded to it's individual
arc segments.

Thanks to Juan Jose Molina on "alt.cad" for his knowledge and sharing
it, thanks.

In article <8EHD8.6592$Wg.5...@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com>, Michael

[Craig Boggan]

Just a note, you have to set the pellipse to 1 before creating the ellipse.
After setting it to then it can be exploded

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[Keith Blackie]

Actually, PELLIPSE only controls the creation of new ellipse objects. If
PELLIPSE is set to 1 then all new ellipse objects will be a polyline
approximation of a true ellipse object. You cannot explode an ellipse
object, at least without special software, you can however, explode a
polyline ellipse object that has been created when PELLIPSE was set to 1.

An option to convert the ellipses to explodable polylines is to save the
ellipse objects as a R12 DXF file then insert the DXF into the drawing.

K

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[Trey Monsour]

What is the reason for having the "ellipse" object if you really can't work
with it? All in all, it's not that often tha I find an 'unadulterated'
ellipse.. they usually always have to be cut/trimmed or whatever... but
then again, that's just my experience...

On Mon, 13 May 2002 14:37:13 -0400, "Keith Blackie" <homen...@alltel.net>
wrote:

[Michael Bulatovich]

"Trey Monsour" <NO_SPAM_...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> What is the reason for having the "ellipse" object if you really can't
work
> with it?

So you can say your software can create them.

[Trey Monsour]

On Tue, 14 May 2002 08:22:09 -0400, "Michael Bulatovich" <do...@even.try>
wrote:

the sad part about that response is that it's probably exactly right.

[faq...@gmail.com]

On Monday, May 13, 2002 at 2:06:58 AM UTC+4, Doug Brown wrote:
> (using R2002) export the ellipse as a R12 dxf (using "select objects" option),
> open the dxf file, copy the ellipse (now a polyline) to the clipboard, and paste
> into your drawing.
>
> Doug

Doug Brown: This method is working; thanks for sharing.