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 with missing boundaries, and the system is trying to convert them to proper polylines to render them usable.

Solution

1. Use one of the following methods to locate each hatch area in your drawing that has a missing boundary:

Method 1:

Use the Quick Select command to select hatches that are not associative.

 

Type QSELECT in the Command line and press Enter. In the Quick Select dialog box, make the following selections:

• Apply to: Entire drawing
• Object type: Hatch
• Properties: Associative
• Operator: Not Equal

 

Then click OK.

 

or ...

Method 2:

Label each hatch in your drawing until you see the same error message.

2. Redraw the bounding line of each hatch with a missing boundary.

3. Delete and re-place each hatch area whose boundary you needed to redraw.

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.