For webmasters: polyline. In computer graphics, a series of connected line segments and arcs that are treated as a single entity. In computer graphics, a single entity that is made up of a series of connected lines.
Contents. Name A polygonal chain may also be called a polygonal curve, polygonal path, polyline, piecewise linear curve, broken line or, in, a linestring or linear ring.
Variations A simple polygonal chain is one in which only consecutive (or the first and the last) segments intersect and only at their endpoints. A closed polygonal chain is one in which the first vertex coincides with the last one, or, alternatively, the first and the last vertices are also connected by a line segment. A simple closed polygonal chain in is the boundary of a.
Often the term ' is used in the meaning of 'closed polygonal chain', but in some cases it is important to draw a distinction between a and a polygonal chain. A polygonal chain is called monotone, if there is a L such that every line perpendicular to L intersects the chain at most once.
Every nontrivial monotone polygonal chain is open. In comparison, a is a polygon (a closed chain) that can be partitioned into exactly two monotone chains. The graphs of form monotone chains with respect to a horizontal line.
Find out more about this and more by attending our. Converting a PolyLine to a Line When working in AutoCAD it is often needed to convert linetypes. One of the most common is Polylines to Lines. Lines enable editing of small sections in slightly different maner to polylines. In order to convert an existing multisegmented polyline to a line.
Select the line the press the explode button on the ribbon - this will convert the line to a multi-segmented set of basic lines - each of which can be edited seperately. Use the explode tool end result Convert Lines to Single PolyLINE Converting a group of lines in a polyline is slightly more long winded than the reverse process.