PEdit -> Break -> Delete

[jbenway]

My apologies if this is a double post. I thought that I had posted it but can't fine it.
I use the Pedit command to break polylines at a vertex. The command now deletes one of the newly created polylines. I don't want it to do this. Is there a setting that I can turn off\on to stop it from doing this?

[tedg]

My apologies if this is a double post. I thought that I had posted it but can't fine it.
I use the Pedit command to break polylines at a vertex. The command now deletes one of the newly created polylines. I don't want it to do this. Is there a setting that I can turn off\on to stop it from doing this?

I don't think I've ever used that before, but running a test,
if you use the command and prompts: "Pedit>Edit vertex>Break>Go" it breaks it at the vertex
But if you use "Pedit>Edit vertex>Break>Next>Go" it removes the pline between the vertices, I assume that is by design?

Are you trying to break a pline in multiple places and keep the segments?
If so I assume you just need to run the command once for each break, maybe someone else has a better idea.
Or you could just explode it and they become "lines" but that's probably not what you want.

[jbenway]

Aha! tedg thank you very much. Simple solution. I was trying to show a new engineer how the command works. I do think that I have never done the Next option after doing the break. I guess it's not too late for an old dog to learn learn new tricks.

[Ed Jobe]

My apologies if this is a double post. I thought that I had posted it but can't fine it.

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An alternative to PEDIT is BREAKATPOINT. Just snap to the vertex.

[jbenway]

Thank you Ed. Good to know. I learned two new autocad tools from a random mistake.

[jmctigue762173]

Is BREAKATAPOINT a lisp routine? or a subset of Pedit?

I have used Break>select>select point>First Point>@0,0 in a small lisp to accomplish what I believe BREAKATAPOINT would do.

(defun C:BRAT()
(command ".BREAK" (ssget) (getpoint) "@0,0")
(princ);;exit quietly
)

[Ed Jobe]

No, not a subset of PEDIT. In the past, in order to break at a single point, you had to do what your lisp does. BREAKATPOINT was subcommand of the BREAK command. They just gave it it's own name, so you no longer need that lisp.