Circle width

[Shizzjr]

Anyone know of a way to add a thickness or width to a circle? Basically I want to be able to edit the circle the way I can a PLine and view the width of it on screen. Any ideas?
Thanks

[Maverick91]

Anyone know of a way to add a thickness or width to a circle? Basically I want to be able to edit the circle the way I can a PLine and view the width of it on screen. Any ideas?
Thanks
Look at DONUT in the help menu.

[kennet.sjoberg]

if the circle is an arc ( break the circle ) you can change the start angle to 0.0001 and the end angle to 0. Then you can use pedit to turn it in to a pline and use a width.

: ) Happy Computing !

kennet

[scwegner]

There's a lisp routine floating around by Jason Piercey that converts circles to polylines. I found it posted somewhere around here or the autodesk discussion boards. May also have been on Cadalyst or something. I don't want to post it for copywright reasons but I'm sure he offered it up somewhere. From there you simply use pedit.

[cook2s]

Might not be the best way, but another option is to just draw a pline over the existing circle and add a width to that. Then either erase the circle or leave it there with two objects on top each other.

[Mike.Perry]

Hi

Check out CIRCLE2PL.VLX from DotSoft Free Stuff (http://www.dotsoft.com/freestuff.htm)

Have a good one, Mike

[kennet.sjoberg]

Check out CIRCLE2PL.VLX from DotSoft Free Stuff (http://www.dotsoft.com/freestuff.htm)
Funny, it does what I suggested but they break the circle in two pieces at 90 and 270 degrees before they convert to a pline.
I suggested a tiny tiny angle, and it works to.

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kennet

[jaberwok]

Funny, it does what I suggested but they break the circle in two pieces at 90 and 270 degrees before they convert to a pline.
I suggested a tiny tiny angle, and it works to.

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kennet

If you break in one place you must, in theory, leave a gap - no matter how small. Breaking it in two means that together they can complete the 360%%d.
I say "in theory" because I know I have in the past managed to create a full 360%%d arc but I can't remember how.

[david-k]

With map you can use the drawing cleanup under the tools menu to convert circles to plines.

[kennet.sjoberg]

With map you can use the drawing cleanup under the tools menu to convert circles to plines.
What happens when you explode one of those, one circle, two arcs or... ?

: ) Happy Computing !

kennet

[kennet.sjoberg]

If you break in one place you must, in theory, leave a gap - no matter how small.
Yes, that is true.

...in the past managed to create a full 360%%d arc but I can't remember how.Yes, in older versions you could even create arcs running around more then 360 %%d.

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kennet

[Wanderer]

With map you can use the drawing cleanup under the tools menu to convert circles to plines.Hmm, I don't think I'd realized that, thanks!

[david-k]

Logically you would think it would revert to the original object.
How often is the program that logical?
It becomes 2 arcs.

[kennet.sjoberg]

Logically you would think it would revert to the original object.
How often is the program that logical?
It becomes 2 arcs.
No, it is not abut program logical, it is abut how to treat AutoCAD objects
can a circle becomes to a string ? In my knowledge no.

: ) Happy Computing !

kennet

[DanLengyel6742]

As Maveric came back with, the Donut is nothing more than a circle with width. Check the properties, it wont even call it a donut. Why cant the command help spell this out?

[Maverick91]

As Maveric came back with, the Donut is nothing more than a circle with width. Check the properties, it wont even call it a donut. Why cant the command help spell this out?
That's 'cause it's not a circle, but a circular pline to which you can assign a width.

[pbsfrp2002]

You can also try creating the circle as a polygon of appropriate size, then use pedit on the polyline. Select the polyline, enter fit and the circle will be created. You can then change the line width