Multi-Linetype Pline

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Summary: Allow segments with varying linetypes within a single pline

Description: Instead of having to create a separate boundary, in order to delineate an object or outline, allow for segments of a polyline to have different linetypes. For instance, the long sides of a rectangle being continuous, with the ends being linetype hidden -- but all being connected into one pline.



Product and Feature: AutoCAD - Linetype

Submitted By: Lucie Vinciguerra on 10/08/2015

[Tom Beauford]

With the original heavy polyline (still around today) each vertex is a separate entity allowing folk to modify properties of a segment with code. I remember seeing an example years ago. The lightweight polyline (lwpolyline default type since r14) that came out with r14 is a single entity like a line and could never have more than one linetype. As they reduced the size of our contour drawings to 1/4 their original size lwpolylines more than doubled the performance of AutoCAD for us.

As heavy polylines serve little purpose now allowing us to ctrl+pick a segment and modify the properties might be useful.