Convert Lines, Arcs, and Splines to Polylines? Message When Running a Schedule

Issue

You tried to run a Planting or RefNotes Schedule and saw the following message in the Command line:

Convert Lines, Arcs, and Splines to polylines [Yes No]?

Cause

Your plan likely includes hatches that were created using splines, as in the example below, and the system is trying to convert them to proper polylines to render them usable.

Solution

You'll need to hunt down the areas that were created with splines and redraw their bounding lines using polylines, then re-place the hatched areas, as pictured below.

 

Running a new schedule should work after fixing all affected hatch areas.

 

If the hatch was created using splines, the method of selecting the hatch, right-clicking, and selecting the option to Generate Bounding Polyline will not work, and will only re-create splines. Using our <SuperJoin tool will convert splines into useable polylines, but you may also need to run our PolyOptimize tool to simplify how many vertices are left on the converted line.