Line clean up

[david_white]

Is thare a way to smooth out a curved line in P.W

Thanks Dave

[dana_swift]

David:

1) Go to the node editing mode
2) select the vector you want to "de-curve"
3) select a curved segment (not the node)
4) right click
5) use the option "to line"
6) repeat 2-5 until done.

7) select unnecessary nodes
8) right click
9) select "delete"
10) repeat 7-9 until the vector is what you want

Hope that helps!

It took me a while to figure out how to get all the power out of the node editing mode. If you use it a little bit you will get the hang of it.

Good luck David

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[dana_swift]

Woops I forgot to do node editing, select the cursor with the little box on it in the middle of the three cursors under "edit vectors".

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[david_white]

Thanks Dana for the response but what I realy would like to do is to smooth out a curve. we get alot of paper templets. We then pick points off the templet say every 3 inches .This generates a jaged curve . Is thare a way to smooth this curve in P.W . Tubo Cad has this ability .

Thanks Dave

[dana_swift]

David you are welcome.

I suggest you use whatever is easiest for you, if TurboCad will do the job real easy, do it there, and transfer it to PW as a DXF file, then you are done.

In the case of PW, you can convert any linear segment to a Bezier curve and adjust the control points until you get the fit you desire. The technique should be fairly obvious once you go through the steps I outlined before, these options are in the same right-click menus.

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