Change to Polyline and Change to Bezier Curve

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Change to Polyline Space.PNGThis function is available in OCAD 11 Professional.This function is available in OCAD 11 Orienteering Standard.

You can find this function in the Object menu or by clicking the Icon ChangeToPolyline.png Change to Polyline button in the Edit Functions Toolbar. This function is available when a line, area or line text object is selected.

Choose this function to change a line into a polyline. A polyline is an angular line, this means all Bezier vertices are replaced with regular vertices.

Change To Polyline Example.PNG

Define the Smooth tolerance in the menu Options - OCAD Preferences - category Drawing and Editing.

Change to Bezier Curve Space.PNGThis function is available in OCAD 11 Professional.This function is available in OCAD 11 Orienteering Standard.This function is available in OCAD 11 Starter.

You can find this function in the Object menu or by clicking the Icon ChangeToBezierCurve.PNG Change to Bezier Curve button in the Edit Functions Toolbar. This opens a dialog and is available when a line, area or line text object is selected. PolylinetoCurve.PNG

Choose this command to convert the selected polylines to Bezier curves. The quality of the Bezier curve depends on the number of vertices of the original polylines and the tangent length factor. If the polyline has only a few vertices the distance from the Bezier curve to the original polyline between the vertices can be much bigger than the tolerance value. The closer the tangent length factor gets to zero, the more points are left and the curve looks more like the polyline.

Polyline.PNGTangent1.PNGTangent05.PNG

Hint.jpgIf a hole inside an area object is selected, only the border of the hole is converted.

Change To Bezier Example.PNG

Define the Change to Bezier curve tolerance in the menu Options - OCAD Preferences - category Drawing and Editing.

Back to the Edit Object page.

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