Chapter 12 Arranging and Patterning Objects
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The
PLINEREVERSEWIDTHS
system variable controls how the
REVERSE
command affects polyline objects. The default setting of
0
only allows you to reverse
start and end points. Polylines with varying width appear unchanged. Set the
PLINEREVERSEWIDTHS
system variable to
1
to also reverse varying polyline width.
See Figure 12-12B.
NOTETEOT N OT
You can also use the
Reverse
option of the
PEDIT
command to reverse
polylines, and the
Reverse
option of the
SPLINEDIT
command to
reverse splines, as explained later in this textbook. Reversing affects
the vertex options of the
PEDIT
command and control point options of
the
SPLINEDIT
command. The
PLINEREVERSEWIDTHS
system vari-
able also applies to the
PEDIT
command.
Figure 12-12.
A—Reversing a polyline assigned a linetype that includes text. B—Using the
REVERSE
command to reverse a polyline with varying width. You must change the
PLINEREVERSEWIDTHS
system variable to
1
in order to make this edit.
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