Add Polyline Arcs

This command replaces a series of short chord line segments in a polyline with an arc segment. This applies where you want to have a true arc instead of a series of line segments. In some cases, the CAD drafting has the arcs drawn as a series of short chords. Another application is to create an arc out of a series of connected survey points along the curve. The routine works by searching for a series of polyline vertices that fit within the specified tolerance with a best fit curve.

The options dialog allows you to set the layer for the new polylines. Otherwise the original polyline layer is used. There is an option whether to keep or erase the original polylines. The Snap Tolerance is the maximum offset allowed between the original points and the arc.

Prompts

Add Arcs to Polylines dialog
Select polylines to process.
Select entities: pick the polylines

Pulldown Menu Location: Edit > Polyline Utilities > Edit Polyline
Keyboard Command: addplarc
Prerequisite: polyline