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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
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    Acad setup

    thanx it worked. what is pickfirst and how did it change automatically?
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    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...
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    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?
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    breakinfg an polyline

    thanx for the help
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    breakinfg an polyline

    how do i install/use the lisp
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    breakinfg an polyline

    thax so much lpseifert. it worked just fine. the macro did not seem to work. I'll just break it manually. thanx alot
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    breakinfg an polyline

    it does not seem to break the pline onto the segments. What is the function of it then?
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    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

    THANX A MILLION! IT WORKED
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    Scaling images

    what do u mean? I know what the horizontal and vertical length should be. If i get the horizontal right and try and get the vertical to the length its suppose to be the horizontal increases.
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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
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    Volume of Excavation

    You need to get urself a earthworks design package. I'm using Technocad. one can create upto 9 surfaces
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    Text

    thanks guys works fine, but it is not part of the text (same as drawing a circle around the text manually).
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    Text

    sorry about that. it will not happen again. I usually just follow what the other guys say and it works. ;-)
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    Text

    guys how do one put a boundary a round text. One can do it for dims.
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    7zip freeware archiver compresses 49.1 MB DWG folder to 3.5 MB

    This is a cool program. thax for sharing
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    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
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    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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