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    spline to polyline

    Hi there I would like to know if there's away of changing a spline into a polyline or a normal line. I would appreciate ur help with this one. thanx
  2. OnTheJob

    Acad setup

    hi there I can't select an objets and than use a comand after words eg highlight an object and move or delete it. I could do it before and I'm used to this arrangement. I think it went wrong when I used MVSETUP a few times. Last time I had to uninstall acad completelly just to make it work the...
  3. OnTheJob

    Dxf image

    Hi there I'm inserting a raster in Acad, but when I safe it as a dxf file and reopen it, the image is no longer there. I tried copying the image and paste it in Acad, but still no luck. can anybody help me with this?
  4. OnTheJob

    breakinfg an polyline

    Hi there I'm doing a culvert design and need to insert cross sections into the desing program. at present I use cross sections at 50m intervals. I need to break my polyline(representing my river) into 50m segments. is there a way of doing this? at present i have to measure manually and it takes...
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    Scaling images

    Hi there I have a raster image that i want to scale. my problem is the vertical and horizontal scale factors r not the same(get it write horizontally, but vertically its out). Is there a way of making this work? Stretching it doesn't work. thanx
  6. OnTheJob

    Text

    guys how do one put a boundary a round text. One can do it for dims.
  7. OnTheJob

    Plot files

    I've recieved a file with following extention (.PLT). AtouCAD would not open the file. Is there a specific program one should use to open this? if so where can i get this program? thanx
  8. OnTheJob

    Backup

    Hi I would like to know where AutoCAD store its backups. I lost one hours work due to a power trip in the office. I cannot locate the directory. can one change the directory? thax
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    Calculating the length

    Hi there I drew a proposed sewer network to be surveyed and would like to know if there is a way of deteriming the total length of this. Drew it as polylines and tried to join them but it wouldn't. At the moment I have to do it manually. Thax

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