Creating polygones

[nk17007]

I'm trying to create a polygone shapefile from a .dwg CAD drawing. The CAD file is made up of several polylines to form an enclosed polygone. When i try to convert it it says there is no entity selected. Is there something I can do in AutoCad itself before trying to convert it?

thanks in advance

[GuthCAD Software Support]

Hi,

Yes, good question. I believe that there are a couple of tools in AutoCAD to let you join polylines. One method that we have tried and that seems to work fairly well is:

- select 'Modify -> Object -> Polyline'
- select 'Multiple'
- select the polylines to be joined
- select 'Join' and the 'fuzz' distance (tolerance for not exactly joining segments)

It handles multiple polygon rings in the one go.

best regards,
Software Support