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CONVTOSOLID

5 Comments Nov-19-2007 | Posted by Muharrem Koçyiğit | Printable Version | Level |

Autocad 2007

CONVTOSOLID command can easily convert 2-D entities, which have thickness property, into solid objects. Objects that you can convert and the important points are mentioned below:

• CIRCLE (Thickness > 0) Fig. 2

• Closed POLYLINE Line weight (thickness) should be same; otherwise you get “Cannot convert a polyline with variable width error. (Global width = 0 / Thickness > 0) Fig. 1

• Open POLYLINE Lineweight (thickness) should be same and more than zero, otherwise AutoCAD will give “Cannot convert an open curve“ error. (Global width > 0 / Thickness > 0) Fig. 3

NOTE: System variable DELOBJ determines whether the original entities are kept inside the drawing file or not. If its value is 1 (one), then the entity is deleted. If its value is 0 (zero), then the entity is kept as it is.

You can reach the command through several ways:

DASBOARD:

You can activate the interface, which is seen on the left side, designed for AutoCAD 2007®, by entering “DASHBOARD“ in the command line. In order to enlarge the lower part of the menu, you can click the button with double arrow symbol.

Some might think that “What is this command used for?”…

I would like to present some examples to you:

• Designing walls/partitions in architectural drawings raw the walls as polyline and give thickness to them. Then, by using _CONVTOSOLID command, you can convert them into 3-D walls.

• Creating 3-D texts:Create your text by DText or Mtext command. By “Explode Text” command, which is in the Express-Tools, convert the text into POLYLINE entities and give thickness to these entities. Now you can convert them to solid objects by CONVTOOLS command. You can combine 3-D texts by UNION command (embossed text) or subtract them by SUBTRACT command (beveled text).

• There may be other examples given…

In my next article, I will try to explain _CONVTUSURFACE and _LOFT (Option Guide) commands with an example drawing. Hope to see you again …

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