X8: Edit Polyline Parts

[vikiw_bend]

These new tools might be fine for drawing, once you get used to them, but as far as editing, they are frustrating. For instance, they affect your ability to break a CAD line. For instance, you double click the Break Line tool, and in X7 or previous, you now had 2 individual line segments. In X8, no matter how you have the Connect/Disconnect CAD or the Disconnect Edges tools set, a double click on the Break Line tool gives you the same result as a single click: you now have a 2-segment polyline. So there are extra steps required now, to toggle Disconnect Edges and select the line again, then move an end of the line segment.It is a royal PITA. 

[Alaskan_Son]

These new tools might be fine for drawing, once you get used to them, but as far as editing, they are frustrating. For instance, they affect your ability to break a CAD line. For instance, you double click the Break Line tool, and in X7 or previous, you now had 2 individual line segments. In X8, no matter how you have the Connect/Disconnect CAD or the Disconnect Edges tools set, a double click on the Break Line tool gives you the same result as a single click: you now have a 2-segment polyline. So there are extra steps required now, to toggle Disconnect Edges and select the line again, then move an end of the line segment.It is a royal PITA. 

 Actually the break tool will still make a complete break.  Its not by double clicking anymore though.  Click the break tool and then on the little edit tool bar that pops up, click the Complete Break tool (looks like the break tool with a little C by it).  You can also just assign Complete Break to a hotkey so you don't have to click on it...maybe use the number 4?

 

3 is the default hotkey for the Break Line tool so all you would have to do is type 34 and you would get a complete break wherever you click.

[dshall]

 Actually the break tool will still make a complete break.  Its not by double clicking anymore though.  Click the break tool and then on the little edit tool bar that pops up, click the Complete Break tool (looks like the break tool with a little C by it).  You can also just assign Complete Break to a hotkey so you don't have to click on it...maybe use the number 4?

 

3 is the default hotkey for the Break Line tool so all you would have to do is type 34 and you would get a complete break wherever you click.

 

time for a quick vid Bud.

[HumbleChief]

I find the tools a bit confusing as well but here's the way I break a line using the current tools.

 

HTH

 

[HumbleChief]

 Actually the break tool will still make a complete break.  Its not by double clicking anymore though.  Click the break tool and then on the little edit tool bar that pops up, click the Complete Break tool (looks like the break tool with a little C by it).  You can also just assign Complete Break to a hotkey so you don't have to click on it...maybe use the number 4?

 

3 is the default hotkey for the Break Line tool so all you would have to do is type 34 and you would get a complete break wherever you click.

Nice Michael, had no idea that little tool existed.

[HumbleChief]

...3 is the default hotkey for the Break Line tool so all you would have to do is type 34 and you would get a complete break wherever you click...

Done.

[vikiw_bend]

Adding the Complete Break tool to my hotkeys works!! Thanks for the tip, Michael. Larry, thanks for making the vid, but that's the extra step I want to avoid. It's so much easier to press the two hotkeys.

[HumbleChief]

... It's so much easier to press the two hotkeys.

Agreed, good tip.