Keeping with the theme of the previous posts about modifying Splines and Polylines…

Here is a routine that lets you change Splines into Polylines. I will warn you though, that this routine doesn’t let you escape or cancel out from the program. So you just have to finish the routine and then undo in order to make changes….

Here’s how it works:

• S2P <enter> to start (Spline 2 Polyline)
• Select the Splines that you want to change to Polylines
• <enter> when finished selecting
• Specify the amount of segments. The more the segments, the smoother the curve. but too many segments may be difficult to work with.

~enjoy

;;CADALYST 12/03 AutoLISP Solutions SPLINE-TO-PLINE.LSP

;;(c) 2003 Tony Hotchkiss

(defun spline-to-pline (/ i)

(vl-load-com)

(setq *thisdrawing* (vla-get-activedocument

(vlax-get-acad-object)

) ;_ end of vla-get-activedocument

*modelspace* (vla-get-ModelSpace *thisdrawing*)

) ;_ end of setq

(setq spline-list (get-spline))

(setq i (- 1))

(if spline-list

(progn

(setq msg "\nNumber of segments <100>: ")

(initget 6)

(setq num (getint msg))

(if (or (= num 100) (= num nil))

(setq num 100)

) ;_ end of if

(repeat (length spline-list)

(setq splobj (nth (setq i (1+ i)) spline-list))

(convert-spline splobj num)

) ;_ end of repeat

) ;_ end of progn

) ;_ end of if

) ;_ end of spline-to-pline

(defun get-spline (/ spl-list obj spline no-ent i)

(setq spl-list nil

obj nil

spline "AcDbSpline"

selsets (vla-get-selectionsets *thisdrawing*)

ss1 (vlax-make-variant "ss1")

) ;_ end of setq

(if (= (vla-get-count selsets) 0)

(setq ssobj (vla-add selsets ss1))

) ;_ end of if

(vla-clear ssobj)

(setq no-ent 1)

(while no-ent

(prompt "\nSelect splines: ")

(vla-Selectonscreen ssobj)

(if (> (vla-get-count ssobj) 0)

(progn

(setq no-ent nil)

(setq i (- 1))

(repeat (vla-get-count ssobj)

(setq

obj (vla-item ssobj

(vlax-make-variant (setq i (1+ i)))

) ;_ end of vla-item

) ;_ end of setq

(cond

((= (vlax-get-property obj "ObjectName") spline)

(setq spl-list

(append spl-list (list obj))

) ;_ end of setq

)

) ;_ end-of cond

) ;_ end of repeat

) ;_ end of progn

(prompt "\nNo entities selected, try again.")

) ;_ end of if

(if (and (= nil no-ent) (= nil spl-list))

(progn

(setq no-ent 1)

(prompt "\nNo splines selected.")

(quit)

) ;_ end of progn

) ;_ end of if

) ;_ end of while

(vla-delete (vla-item selsets 0))

spl-list

) ;_ end of get-spline

(defun convert-spline (splobj n / i)

(setq point-list nil

2Dpoint-list nil

z-list nil

spl-lyr (vlax-get-property splobj 'Layer)

startSpline (vlax-curve-getStartParam splobj)

endSpline (vlax-curve-getEndParam splobj)

i (- 1)

) ;_ end of setq

(repeat (+ n 1)

(setq i (1+ i))

(setq p (vlax-curve-getPointAtParam

splobj

(* i

(/ (- endspline startspline) n)

) ;_ end of *

) ;_ end of vlax-curve-getPointAtParam

) ;_ end of setq

(setq 2Dp (list (car p) (cadr p))

2Dpoint-list (append 2Dpoint-list 2Dp)

point-list (append point-list p)

z (caddr p)

z-list (append z-list (list z))

) ;_ end of setq

) ;_ end of repeat

(setq summ (apply '+ z-list))

(setq arraySpace

(vlax-make-safearray

vlax-vbdouble ; element type

(cons 0

(- (length point-list) 1)

) ; array dimension

) ;_ end of vlax-make-safearray

) ;_ end of setq

(setq vert-array (vlax-safearray-fill arraySpace point-list))

(vlax-make-variant vert-array)

(if (and (= :vlax-true (vlax-get-property splobj 'IsPLanar))

(= summ 0.0)

) ;_ end of and

(setq plobj (add-polyline

2Dpoint-list

vla-AddLightweightPolyline

) ;_ end of add-polyline

) ;_ end of setq

(setq plobj (add-polyline

point-list

vla-Add3DPoly

) ;_ end of add-polyline

) ;_ end of setq

) ;_ end of if

(vlax-put-property plobj 'Layer spl-lyr)

(vla-delete splobj)

(vlax-release-object splobj)

) ;_ end of convert-spline

(defun add-polyline (pt-list poly-func)

(setq arraySpace

(vlax-make-safearray

vlax-vbdouble

(cons 0

(- (length pt-list) 1)

) ; array dimension

) ;_ end of vlax-make-safearray

) ;_ end of setq

(setq vertex-array

(vlax-safearray-fill arraySpace pt-list)

) ;_ end of setq

(vlax-make-variant vertex-array)

(setq plobj (poly-func

*modelspace*

vertex-array

) ;_ end of poly-func

) ;_ end of setq

) ;_ end of add-polyline

(defun c:s2p ()

(spline-to-pline)

(princ)

) ;_ end of c:s2p

(prompt

"SPLINE-TO-PLINE by Tony Hotchkiss. Enter S2P to start"

) ;_ end of prompt