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Smoothing a line which has facets. 1

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RoyStuartDesigns

Marine/Ocean
Dec 6, 2014
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Hi,

I'm a Draftsight newbie so please excuse sloppy language and silly questions.

I've created the line shown below. It has facets as the line has straight segments between points. This isn't apparent until zoomed in. I'd like to smooth it so that it is curved rather than segmented. I tried creating the line using the spline tool and all went well until I went to close the line, it asked for the angle of the tangent or something like that and the curve was messed up in the area where it was about to be closed. If the spline tool can be used that might be preferable but any asvice will be appreciated. It's a big wave surfboard shape based using a NACA foil.The shape is 12 feet long.

PLANSHAPE.jpg
 
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Hi,
try make POLYLINE from segment and FIT it (not SPLINE).
 
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